Coloniality at large : Latin America and the postcolonial debate

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Title:

Author:

Moraña, Mabel.

ISBN:

9780822341475

9780822341697

Publication Information:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

viii, 628 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Latin America otherwise

Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Latin America otherwise.

Series Title:

Latin America otherwise

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Colonialism and Its Replicants / Mabel Morafic, Enrique Dussel and Carlos A. Jauregui -- Pt. 1. Colonial Encounters, Decolonization, and Cultural Agency -- America and the Colonizer Question: Two Formative Statements from Early Mexico / Gordon Brotherston -- Thinking Europe in Indian Categories, or, "Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You" / Jose Rabasa -- Creole Agencies and the (Post) Colonial Debate in Spanish America / Jose Antonio Mazzotti -- Pt. 2. Rewriting Colonial Difference -- European Transplants, Amerindian In-laws, African Settlers, Brazilian Creoles: AUnique Colonial and Postcolonial Condition in Latin America / Russell G. Hamilton -- Posting Letters:Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Debate / Sara Castro-Klaren -- Unforgotten Gods: Postcoloniality and Representations of Haiti in Antonio Benitez Rojo's "Heaven and Earth" / Elzbieta Sklodowska -- Pt. 3. Occidentalism, Globalization, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge -- Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Social Classification / Anibal Quijano -- The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference / Walter D. Mignolo -- (Post)Coloniality for Dummies: Latin American Perspectives on Modernity, Caloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge / Santiago Cristro-Gomez -- Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Post-accidentalism, and Globalization Theory / Eduardo Mendieta -- Developmentalism, Modernity,and Dependency Theoryin Latin America / Ramon Grosfoguel -- Pt. 4. Religion, Liberation, and the Narratives of Secularism -- Philosophy of Liberation, the Postmodern Debate, and Latin American Studies / Enrique Dussel -- The Historical Meaning of Christianity of Liberationin Latin America / Michael Lowy -- Secularism and Religion in the Modern/Colonial World-System: From Secular Postcoloniality to Postsecular Transmodernity / Nelson Maldonado-Torres -- Pt. 5. Comparative (Post)Colonialisms -- Postcolonial Theory and the Representation of Culture in the Americas / Peter Hulme -- Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization / Fernando Coronil -- The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context / Amaryll Chanady -- Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature / Roman de la Campa -- In the Neocolony:Destiny, Destination, and the Traffic in Meaning / Mary Louise Pratt -- Pt. 6. Postcolonial Ethnicities -- Peripheral Modernity and Differential Mestizsje in Latin America: Outside Subalternist Postcolonialism / Mario Roberto Morales -- (Post)Coloniality in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement's Practices and Politics of (Re)Signification and Decolonization / Catherine E. Walsh -- The Maya Movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency / Arturo Arias.

Subject Term:

Imperialism -- Historiography.

Geographic Term:

Latin America -- Civilization.

Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History.

Added Author:

Moraña, Mabel.

Dussel, Enrique D.

Jáuregui, Carlos A.

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Summary

Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Colonialism in Latin America originated centuries earlier, in the transoceanic adventures from which European modernity itself was born. Coloniality at Large brings together classic and new reflections on the theoretical implications of colonialism in Latin America. By pointing out its particular characteristics, the contributors highlight some of the philosophical and ideological blind spots of contemporary postcolonial theory as they offer a thorough analysis of that theory's applicability to Latin America's past and present.

Written by internationally renowned scholars based in Latin America, the United States, and Europe, the essays reflect multiple disciplinary and ideological perspectives. Some are translated into English for the first time. The collection includes theoretical reflections, literary criticism, and historical and ethnographic case studies focused on Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, the Andes, and the Caribbean. Contributors examine the relation of Marxist thought, dependency theory, and liberation theology to Latin Americans' experience of and resistance to coloniality, and they emphasize the critique of Occidentalism and modernity as central to any understanding of the colonial project. Analyzing the many ways that Latin Americans have resisted imperialism and sought emancipation and sovereignty over several centuries, they delve into topics including violence, identity, otherness, memory, heterogeneity, and language. Contributors also explore Latin American intellectuals' ambivalence about, or objections to, the "post" in postcolonial; to many, globalization and neoliberalism are the contemporary guises of colonialism in Latin America.

Contributors : Arturo Arias, Gordon Brotherston, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amaryll Chanady, Fernando Coronil, Román de la Campa, Enrique Dussel, Ramón Grosfoguel, Russell G. Hamilton, Peter Hulme, Carlos A. Jáuregui, Michael Löwy, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, José Antonio Mazzotti, Eduardo Mendieta, Walter D. Mignolo, Mario Roberto Morales, Mabel Moraña, Mary Louise Pratt, Aníbal Quijano, José Rabasa, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Catherine E. Walsh