Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. The Desire of Life. Towards a Theory of (Post-)Imperial Health Narratives 1
4. Remedies
5. Colonial Biopolitics. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Hospital that Never Was 25
6. Religion over Life and Death. The Cocoliztli in the Florentine Codex 69
7. Plagues and Remedies in Relación de Texcoco (1582), Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala (1584) and Historia de Tlaxcala (1592) 89
8. Fever Pestilence and Immunity after 1685. On Gregório de Matos’ Grief Poems and Martinique’s Hospital Histories 107
9. The Origin of Syphilization. Eighteenth-Century Criollo Perspectives 139
10. Bodies
11. Purity and Pollution. The Early Modern Discourse of Othering in the Context of Lues Venerea 157
12. Bodies and Extractivism in Spanish Natural History 181
13. The Power of Herbs. Colonized Bodies opposing Colonization in Chronicles of the Indies 199
14. Chronicles of the Indies and Conquista Movies. How to Control Bodies and Minds in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios (1542) and Nicolás Echevarría’s Cabeza de Vaca (1990) 217
15. Notizen zur kolonialen Normierung des Körpers. Fallstudien aus dem deutschen Schutzgebiet Togo 233
16. Crime Fever. Colonial Pathologies in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1867) 253
17. Policies
18. Kolonialherrschaft, Krankheit, Biopolitik. Das bourbonische Neuspanien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der matlazahuatl- und Pockenepidemien 271
19. Voluntariness, A Res Publica. Civic Engagement during the Yellow Fever Crises of the 1790s 299
20. Russian Maladies, Indigenous Death. Mapping Disease Encounters and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Siberia 325
21. Postkoloniale Ökokritik als Antwort auf die Ebola-Epidemie. Véronique Tadjos En compagnie des hommes 349
22. Händewaschen, Abstandhalten, Maskentragen. Pandemische Körperpolitiken und -praktiken in Corona Fictions 367
23. Beyond the Exception Tale. Pandemic and Ecological Grief 401
24. Index