Escritura : on imagining/writing postcolonial histories. -- Point and counterpoint / Andrés Guerrero. -- After Spanish rule : writing another after / Mark Thurner. -- Essaying the history of national images / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo. -- Poética : knowledges, nations, histories. -- Post-colonialism avante l'lettre? : travelers and clerics in eighteenth-century colonial Spanish America / Jorge Cañizares-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. -- Política : 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 / Andrés Guerrero.