Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Reliving the Mexican Colonia in a New Millennium / Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar -- Part I. Revising Colonial Ruins and Chronicles -- 1. Carlos Monsiváis: Rewriting the Nation's Memory, Playing Back the Conscience of a Mexico Remiso / Linda Egan -- 2. Reading Colonial Ruins in Carmen Boullosa's Poetry / Jeremy Paden -- 3. Fiction, History, and Geography: Colonial Returns to Mexico City in Héctor de Mauleón's El secreto de la Noche Triste / Vinodh Venkatesh -- Part II. Queering Gender and Twisting Genres -- 4. Four Letters and a Funeral: Sor Juana's Writing in Yo, la peor / Oswaldo Estrada -- 5. Queering the Auto Sacramental: Anti-Heteronormative Parody and the Specter of Silence in Luis Felipe Fabre's La sodomía en la Nueva España / Tamara R. Williams -- 6. Colonial Confinement, Confession, and Resistance in Ángeles del abismo by Enrique Serna / Guillermo de los Reyes-Heredia and Josué Gutiérrez-González -- Part III. Global and Transatlantic Itineraries -- 7. Malinche as Cinderellatl: Sweeping Female Agency in Search of a Global Readership / Irma Cantú -- 8. Transatlantic Revisions of the Conquest in Inma Chacón's La princesa india / Cristina Carrasco -- 9. También la lluvia: Of Coproductions and Re-Encounters, a Re-Vision of the Colonial / Ilana Dann Luna -- 10. Children's Literature on the Colonia: La Nao de China, the Inquisition, Sor Juana / Emily Hind -- Part IV. Into the Nineteenth-Century Colonia -- 11. Rethinking the Nascent Nation: Historical Fiction and Metanarrative in Pablo Soler Frost's 1767 / Anna M. Nogar -- 12. Out of Bounds in 1822: Humoring the Limits of Colonial Mexico / Stuart A. Day -- 13. A Postcolonial Quartet, 2006-2008 / Seymour Menton -- Postscriptum. Specifically Mexican, Universally American: Tales of Colonial Mexico and Their Legacies / Rolena Adorno -- Contributors.

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