The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

by Rodriguez, Ileana; López, María Milagros; Silverblatt, Irene; Sald & iacute; var-hull, Sonia

• ISBN13: 9780822327011
• ISBN10: 0822327015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that of class, as contributors focus on the possibilities of investigating history from below. In addition to an overview by Ranajit Guha, essay topics include nineteenth-century hygiene in Latin American countries, Rigoberta Menchuacute; after the Nobel, commentaries on Haitian and Argentinian issues, the relationship between gender and race in Bolivia, and ungovernability and tragedy in Peru. Providing a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, the essays included here prove that Latin American Subaltern Studies is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.Contributors.Marcelo Bergman, John Beverley, Robert Carr, Sara Castro-Klareacute;n, Michael Clark, Beatriz Gonzaacute;lez Stephan, Ranajit Guha, Mariacute;a Milagros Loacute;pez , Walter Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Joseacute; Rabasa, Ileana Rodriacute;guez, Josefina Saldantilde;a-Portillo, Javier Sanjineacute;s, C. Patricia Seed, Doris Sommer, Marcia Stephenson, Moacute;nica Szurmuk, Gareth Williams, Marc Zimmerman

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
About the Series	xi
Reading Subalterns Across Texts, Disciplines, and Theories: From Representation to Recognition	1	(34)
Ileana Rodriguez
I. CONVERGENCES OF TIMES: SUBALTERN STUDIES SOUTH ASIA/LATIN AMERICA, MODERN/POSTMODERN
Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence	35	(12)
Ranajit Guha
The Im/possibility of Politics: Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony	47	(17)
John Beverley
Solidarity as Event, Communism as Personal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire	64	(17)
Maria Milagros Lopez
A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism	81	(30)
Alberto Moreiras
II. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE COLONIALITY OF POWER
Rigoberta Menchu After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics	111	(18)
Marc Zimmerman
No Perfect World: Aboriginal Communities' Contemporary Resource Rights	129	(14)
Patricia Seed
Historiography on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma	143	(32)
Sara Castro-Klaren
III. SUBJECT POSITIONS: DOMINANT AND SUBALTERN INTELLECTUALS?
Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism	175	(16)
Doris Sommer
Beyond Representation? The Impossibility of the Local (Nocal (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos)	191	(20)
Jose Rabasa