General:Transmisión y circulación de paradigmas culturales en el Nuevo Mundo.Siglos XVI -XVIII

In this project we intend to apply a set of interdisciplinary approaches which already have a long career in the international academic
environment to the field of Latin American literature in the colonial era. We focus especially on the study of paradigms, considered from a
broad chronology (a transtemporal view, which links the controversies of the modern era with earlier times, such as the late Middle Ages in
Spain) and a set of generic cultural references (in line with David Armitages call for a "history of ideas" that does not lose sight of the
relationship between intellectual, religious and socio-political levels). Special attention will be paid to the context of the Spanish-speaking
world seen from a global perspective and to the exploration of the particularities of the American continent. This approach allows a more
rigorous examination of the practices of adaptation of styles, themes, principles and rules which were presumably widespread in the
Catholic world, but which eventually gave rise to more local variants, as proposed in the idea of "serial contextualism". Special emphasis
will be placed on comparative research, situating the Hispanic world in Europe and America in relation to the contemporary hegemonic
cultures such as France and England. The result will be a library of the Indies in which the titles published will be linked with many other
cultural paradigms and which will include not only strictly literary texts, but historiographical, anthropological, linguistic, theological,
ethnographic and scientific works as well. Our main objective is the transfer of knowledge that is, to bring the results of the research to a
wider audience beyond the limits of academia. Our approach is based on the analysis of values constructed in very plural communities,
and this is perhaps its main virtue: it ties in closely with the strategic objectives of Horizon 2020, especially the study of the major issues
affecting European citizens (by examining the historical construction of values and successful responses to cultural or social crisis, as was
the case of colonial America) and the promotion of "inclusive innovative and reflective societies". The rationale of subproject 2, then, is not
so much the edition of texts for a wide readership but texts that are productive from the standpoint of research, in coordination with the
tasks carried out as part of subproject 1: theoretical studies that shed light on the historical context, the ideological and theological debates
in the Latin American colonial canon. We feel that a good strategy for transferring this knowledge to society is the revival of a more
humanistic and more accessible approach to literary works in general, and especially in the case of a body of work as hybrid,
heterogeneous and even cryptic as the Latin American colonial canon. Thus, the justification for the proposal of this second subproject, in
coordination with the first, is to meet the challenge of knowledge transfer, together with documentation and research.