This volume represents a heartfelt tribute to Georgina Sabat-Rivers, a prominent figure in the study of the constitution of a Creole discourse in the colonial period, as well as the incorporation of a gender perspective in the study of various writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Her critical work combines archival research with a solid historical and philological background, which does not conflict with the use of more recent theoretical approaches. Her work as a teacher and researcher of Latin American colonial literature has been vital in training several generations of colonialists whose critical work draws on her extensive bibliography. The purpose of this anthology is to recognize and celebrate this unique contribution. The essays collected here show a diversity of agendas, themes, interests and reflections that illustrate a clear demarcation between colonial and postcolonial studies from the analysis of the discourses of national formation in Latin America, without proposing an antagonistic or exclusive relationship. We also find in them the vitality and passion that have characterized the critical and educational work of Georgina Sabat-Rivers.