Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-256) and index.
Contents
Melange, chaos, westernization -- Amazons -- Melange and mestizo -- The shock of conquest -- Westernization -- Mestizo imagery -- The lady centaur and the monkey -- Mexican Ovid -- The invasion of grotesques, or, moving images -- The language of grotesques and glyphs -- Mestizo creativity -- Wolf, rain, and rainbow -- Crossing the sea -- Colonizing heaven -- Sibylline grotto -- Happy together.