Larisa Brewer — a reading list
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Larissa Brewer-García
Larissa Brewer-García is assistant professor of Latin American literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She specializes in colonial Latin American studies, with a focus on cultural productions of the Caribbean, the Andes, and the African diaspora. She is a co-founder, with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Cécile Fromont, of the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture (now a joint project with the University of Chicago and Yale University) and part of the faculty committee of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University’s initiative Afro-Latin American Art: Building the Field.
Colonial Afro-Latin America
Born of nineteenth-century nationalist projects, colonial Latin American studies long focused on identifying proto-national subjects and aesthetics to help establish a historical lineage for Latin American national identities.
