Mariselle Meléndez
Biographic Data
| ID | 908363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariselle Meléndez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariselle |
| FAMILY NAME | Meléndez |
| SIGNATURE | MELÉNDEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3232-0549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also Fren…
Assaulted Bodies
Legal documents of the late colonial period enable us to understand how this agency was negotiated in domestic and public spaces and how black women became key protagonists in their struggle for respect and survival. This essay examines the case of two female slaves who lived in the port city of Santa María de los Angeles de Buenos Aires who were victims of physical abuse by two male acquaintances: resulting in death in one case and in a state of…
Geography and the Enlightenment
This article focuses on how two Spanish American Creole writers perceived their port city as a symbol of national prestige, devoted patriotism, and utilitarian significance, at a time when the military and economic status of the port was undergoing transformational changes. It centers on the works of two eighteenth-century Cuban writers, José Martín Félix de Arrate’s Llave del Nuevo Mundo, antemural de las Indias Occidentales: La Habana descripta…
Introduction
Deviant and Useful Citizens
An Eighteenth-Century Visual Representation of the Black Population in Trujillo del Perú
In 1785, the Bishop of Trujillo, Baltasar Martinez Companon decided to record a complete history of the province of Trujillo del Peru based on his observations about the inhabitants, cultural pract
Invasion and Transformation
Patria, Criollos and Blacks
In Constructing the Criollo Archive, Antony Higgins (2000) called attention to the relevance of examining the seldom-studied eighteenth-century Latin American discursive production in order to bett
Raza, genero e hibridez en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes
Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitad…
El perfil economico de la identidad racial en los "Apuntes" de las indias caciques del convento de Corpus Christi
Introduction
Patria, Criollos and Blacks
In Constructing the Criollo Archive, Antony Higgins (2000) called attention to the relevance of examining the seldom-studied eighteenth-century Latin American discursive production in order to bett
An Eighteenth-Century Visual Representation of the Black Population in Trujillo del Perú
In 1785, the Bishop of Trujillo, Baltasar Martinez Companon decided to record a complete history of the province of Trujillo del Peru based on his observations about the inhabitants, cultural pract
El perfil economico de la identidad racial en los "Apuntes" de las indias caciques del convento de Corpus Christi
Raza, genero e hibridez en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes
Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitad…
Patria, Criollos and Blacks
In Constructing the Criollo Archive, Antony Higgins (2000) called attention to the relevance of examining the seldom-studied eighteenth-century Latin American discursive production in order to bett
An Eighteenth-Century Visual Representation of the Black Population in Trujillo del Perú
In 1785, the Bishop of Trujillo, Baltasar Martinez Companon decided to record a complete history of the province of Trujillo del Peru based on his observations about the inhabitants, cultural pract
Invasion and Transformation
Deviant and Useful Citizens
Introduction
Assaulted Bodies
Legal documents of the late colonial period enable us to understand how this agency was negotiated in domestic and public spaces and how black women became key protagonists in their struggle for respect and survival. This essay examines the case of two female slaves who lived in the port city of Santa María de los Angeles de Buenos Aires who were victims of physical abuse by two male acquaintances: resulting in death in one case and in a state of…
Geography and the Enlightenment
This article focuses on how two Spanish American Creole writers perceived their port city as a symbol of national prestige, devoted patriotism, and utilitarian significance, at a time when the military and economic status of the port was undergoing transformational changes. It centers on the works of two eighteenth-century Cuban writers, José Martín Félix de Arrate’s Llave del Nuevo Mundo, antemural de las Indias Occidentales: La Habana descripta…
The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story in English about a body of work expressed predominantly in Spanish, but also Fren…
Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (2 works)