Title Coloniality at large : Latin America and the postcolonial debate / edited by Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jáuregui

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 628 pages) : illustrations Series Latin America otherwise Latin America otherwise. Contents 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" / José Rabasa -- Creole agencies and the (post)colonial debate in Spanish America / José Antonio Mazzotti -- pt. 2. Rewriting colonial difference -- European transplants, Amerindian in-laws, African settlers, Brazilian creoles : a unique 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 Benítez Rojo's "Heaven and earth" -- pt. 3. Occidentalism, globalization, and the geopolitics of knowledge -- Coloniality of power, eurocentrism, and social classification / Aníbal Quijano -- The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference / Walter D. Mignolo -- (Post)coloniality for dummies : Latin American perspectives on modernity, coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge / Santiago Castro-Gómez -- Remapping Latin American studies : postcolonialism, subaltern studies, post-occidentalism, and globalization theory / Eduardo Mendieta -- Developmentalism, modernity, and dependency theory in Latin America / Ramón Grofoguel -- 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 liberation in Latin America / Michael Löwy -- Secularism and religion in the modern/colonial world-system : from secular postcoloniality to postsecular transmodernity / Nelson Maldonado-Torres -- pt. 5. Comparative (post)colonialism -- Postcolonial theory and 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 / Román de la Campa -- In the neocolony : destiny, destination, and the traffic in meaning / Mary Louise Pratt -- pt. 6. Postcolonial ethnicities -- Peripheral modernity and the differential Mestizaje 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 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. It differs from later manifestations of European expansionism in other ways as well. This book brings together 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"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-608) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Imperialism -- Historiography HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Imperialism -- Historiography. Postcolonialismo -- América Latina Civilization Imperialism -- Historiography Spanish colonies Postkolonialismus colonialisme -- Amérique latine -- études diverses. post-colonialisme -- Amérique latine -- études diverses. décolonisation -- Amérique latine -- études diverses. 15.85 history of America. Post-colonialism. Imperialism -- Historiography. SUBJECT Latin America -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074881 Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History Spain -- Colonies -- America Subject Latin America -- Civilization. America Latin America Lateinamerika Latin America. Latin America -- Civilization. Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History. Genre/Form History Aufsatzsammlung. Form Electronic book Author Moraña, Mabel. Dussel, Enrique D. Jáuregui, Carlos A. ISBN 9780822388883 082238888X

Other Titles Latin America and the postcolonial debate

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