Since the mid-twentieth century, one of the most prolific literary strands in Spanish-speaking America has been the one that reimagines the colonial past ?not with the goal of understanding it, but with the purpose of speculating about it. Without any totalizing intent, this volume reflects on some of the works that belong to this tradition ?one that has proven to be not only among the most productive, but also among the most daring in imaginative terms. Articles in English and Spanish.