Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures
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Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging from Pre-Columbian to contemporary works, there is a collective questioning of the very idea of “Latin America,” what “Latin American” contains or leaves out, and the various practices and locations constituting Latinamericanism. This transdisciplinary study aims to open an evolving corpus of decolonial scholarship, providing a unique entry point into the literature and material culture produced from precolonial to contemporary times.
ISBN
978-1-349-93358-7
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave-Macmillan Publishing
City
New York
Keywords
Post Modern Literature
Disciplines
Latin American Languages and Societies
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Decolonial Strategies for Reading and Looking with and against the Grain / Tara Daly
Undisciplining "Spanish" and "Literature"
Notes from the Field: Decolonizing the Curriculum/The "Spanish" Major / Sara Castro-Klaren
The Rule of Impurity: Decolonial Theory and the Question of Literature / Horacio Legras
Decolonizing Translation and Representations of the Indigenous
The (De)coloniality of Conceptual Inequivalence: Reinterpreting Ometeotl through Nahua Tlacuiloliztli / Zairong Xiang
What Does the Sumak Kawsay Mean for Women in the Andes Today? Unsettling Patriarchal Sedimentations in Two Inca Writers / Antonia Carcelen-Estrada
New Indigenous Literatures in the Making: A Contribution to Decoloniality / Arturo Arias
Material Culture and Literature as Decolonial Critiques
Decolonizing Aesthetic Representation: The Presence of the European Savage in Bolivian Modernity / Javier Sanjines
The Air as a Decolonial Critique of Being in Cesar Calvo's Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonia / Tara Daly
Disruptive Capital in Andean/World Literature: A Decolonial Reading of Enrique Gil Gilbert's Nuestro pan / Juan G. Ramos
Decolonial Options, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Transregional Alliances
Ethnic Reemergence in Uruguay: The Return of the Charrua in the Light of Settler Colonialism Studies / Gustavo Verdesio
When Nationality Becomes a "Negative Condition" for Politics: Gamaliel Churata's Contribution to Bolivian Political Theory / Elizabeth Monasterios
Decolonization and Indigenous Sovereignty: Coming to Terms with Theories in the Americas / Laura J. Beard
Postscriptum: Decolonial Scenarios and Alternative Thinking: Critical and
Theoretical Explorations / Mabel Morana
Contributors' Biographies
Index