After Spanish Rule

by Thurner, Mark; Guerrero, Andres; Mignolo, Walter D.; Silverblatt, Irene

• ISBN13: 9780822331575
• ISBN10: 0822331578
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors contend that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing. Challenging the universalizing tendencies of some postcolonial theorists, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countries-with their creole elites, subjugated ethnic groups, and complicated relationships with their neighbor to the north-are different from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume shows that valuable insights can still be gained by exploring, for example, how Spanish approaches to colonialism influenced later French and British colonialisms or how nationalist movements in Asia drew upon Latin American models for inspiration. Contributors Thomas Abercrombie Shahid Amin Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Peter Guardino Andrés Guerrero Marixa Lasso Javier Morillo-Alicea Joanne Rappaport Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Mark Thurner

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword
Shahid Amin	xi
1. ESCRITURA
On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories
Point and Counterpoint
Andrés Guerrero	3	(9)
After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After
Mark Thurner	12	(46)
Essaying the History of National Images
Mauricio Tenorio Trillo	58	(31)
2. POETICA
Knowledges, Nations, Histories
Postcolonialism avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra	89	(22)
"Aquel laberinto de oficinas": Ways of Knowing Empire in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain
Javier Morillo-Alicea	111	(30)
Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation
Mark Thurner	141	(35)
Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivian Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro's Carnival
Thomas A. Abercrombie	176	(47)
3. POLITICA
Governmentalities, States, Subjects
Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809-1815
Marixa Lasso	223	(25)
Postcolonialism as Self Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 1814-1828
Peter Guardino	248	(24)
The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador
Andrés Guerrero	272	(38)
Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia
Joanne Rappaport	310	(37)
Contributors	347	(2)
Index	349