Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-317) and index.
Contents
The satanic epic. The Iberian satanic epic -- The satanic epic in the Catholic Atlantic -- The Elizabethan satanic epic -- The Puritan satanic epic in America -- The Spanish conquest as hell -- Our "Elizabethan" Lady of Guadalupe -- Iberian traditions in Milton's Paradise Lost -- -- The structure of a shared demonological discourse. Satan's tyranny -- Cannibalism -- Collective harassment and Amerindian emasculation -- The geographical mobility of demons : the geopolitics of evil -- Satan : God's ape in America -- Satan and typology : the Aztecs' history as the inverted mirror-image of the Israelites' -- Driving out demons with the cross -- Anglican crosses/puritan bibles -- Demonology and nature. Storms : the tempest -- Storms : Iberian traditions -- Plants -- Monsters -- Satanic snakes -- Catholic providence in nature -- Protestant providence in nature -- America as false paradise -- Colonization as spiritual gardening. Gardening as type and metaphor -- Flowers and patriotic anxieties in Spanish America -- Puritan "plantations" -- Toward a "Pan-American" Atlantic -- Bolton's legacy -- The national and the global -- The comparative and the transnational -- Sudden divergence -- Could the Spanish America ever be normative? -- The exclusionary force of the narrative of "Western Civilization" -- Historiographical barricades -- Ideaswhere? -- Should Latin Americans embrace the Atlantic? -- Away from tragic narratives
