After Spanish rule : postcolonial predicaments of the Americas / edited by Mark Thurner and Andreś Guerrero.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Escritura : on imagining/writing postcolonial histories -- Point and counterpoint / Andreś Guerrero -- After Spanish rule : writing another after / Mark Thurner -- Essaying the history of national images / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo -- Poet́ica : knowledges, nations, histories -- Post-colonialism avante l'lettre? : travelers and clerics in eighteenth-century colonial Spanish America / Jorge Canĩzares-Esguerra -- "Aquel laberinto de oficinas" : ways of knowing empire in late nineteenth-century Spain / Javier Morillo-Alicea -- Peruvian genealogies of history and nation / Mark Thurner -- Mothers and mistresses of the urban Bolivian public sphere : postcolonial predicament and national imaginary in Oruro's carnival / Thomas Abercrombie -- Redrawing the nation : indigenous intellectuals and ethnic pluralism in contemporary Colombia / Joanne Rappaport -- Polit́ica : governmentalities, states, subjects -- Revisiting independence day : Afro-Colombian politics and Creole patriot narratives, 1809-1815 / Marixa Lasso -- Postcolonialism as self-fulfilled prophecy : electoral politics in Oaxaca, 1814-1828 / Peter Guardino -- The administration of dominated populations under a regime of 'customary' citizenship : the case of postcolonial Ecuador / Andreś Guerrero.