Coloniality at Large

by Morana, Mabel; Dussel, Enrique; Jauregui, Carlos

• ISBN13: 9780822341475
• ISBN10: 0822341476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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 Largebrings 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 theoryrs"s applicability to Latin Americars"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 Americansrs" 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 intellectualsrs" 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-Goacute;mez, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amaryll Chanady, Fernando Coronil, Romaacute;n de la Campa, Enrique Dussel, Ramoacute;n Grosfoguel, Russell G. Hamilton, Peter Hulme, Carlos A. Jaacute;uregui, Michael Louml;wy, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Joseacute; Antonio Mazzotti, Eduardo Mendieta, Walter D. Mignolo, Mario Roberto Morales, Mabel Morantilde;a, Mary Louise Pratt, Aniacute;bal Quijano, Joseacute; Rabasa, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Catherine E. Walsh

Table of Contents

About the Series	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Colonialism and Its Replicants	p. 1
Colonial Encounters, Decolonization, and Cultural Agency
America and the Colonizer Question: Two Formative Statements from Early Mexico	p. 23
Thinking Europe in Indian Categories, or, "Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You"	p. 43
Creole Agencies and the (Post) Colonial Debate in Spanish America	p. 77
Rewriting Colonial Difference
European Transplants, Amerindian In-laws, African Settlers, Brazilian Creoles: A Unique Colonial and Postcolonial Condition in Latin America	p. 113
Posting Letters: Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Debate	p. 130
Unforgotten Gods: Postcoloniality and Representations of Haiti in Antonio Benitez Rojo's "Heaven and Earth"	p. 158
Occidentalism, Globalization, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Social Classification	p. 181
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference	p. 225
(Post) Coloniality for Dummies: Latin American Perspectives on Modernity, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge	p. 259
Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Post-Occidentalism, and Globalization Theory	p. 286
Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America	p. 307
Religion, Liberation, and the Narratives of Secularism
Philosophy of Liberation, the Postmodern Debate, and Latin American Studies	p. 335
The Historical Meaning of Christianity of Liberation in Latin America	p. 350
Secularism and Religion in the Modern/Colonial World-System: From Secular Postcoloniality to Postsecular Transmodernity	p. 360
Comparative (Post) Colonialisms
Postcolonial Theory and the Representation of Culture in the Americas	p. 388
Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization	p. 396
The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context	p. 417
Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature	p. 435
In the Neocolony: Destiny, Destination, and the Traffic in Meaning	p. 459
Postcolonial Ethnicities
Peripheral Modernity and Differential Mestizaje in Latin America: Outside Subalternist Postcolonialism	p. 479
(Post) Coloniality in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement's Practices and Politics of (Re)Signification and Decolonization	p. 506
The Maya Movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency	p. 519
Bibliography	p. 539
Contributors	p. 609
Index	p. 615
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