Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures / edited by Juan G. Ramos, Tara Daly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramos, Juan G., Editor.

Daly, Tara., Editor.

Series:

Literatures of the Americas, 2634-6028

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

America--History.

America.

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary History.

Literary Theory.

History of the Americas.

Latin American Culture.

Local Subjects:

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary History.

Literary Theory.

History of the Americas.

Latin American Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction - Decolonial Strategies for Reading and Looking Against the Grain, Juan G. Ramos and Tara Daly

I. Undisciplining "Spanish" and "Literature"

Notes from the Field: Decolonizing the Curriculum/The "Spanish" Major, Sara Castro-Klarén

The Rule of Impurity: Decolonial Theory and the Question of Literature, Horacio Legrás

II. 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 C. Carcelén-Estrada

New Indigenous Literatures in the Making: A Contribution to Decoloniality, Arturo Arias

III. Material Culture and Literature as Decolonial Critiques

Decolonizing Aesthetic Representation: The Presence of the European Savage in Bolivian Modernity

Javier Sanjinés C.

The Air as Decolonial Critique of Being in César Calvo's Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía, Tara Daly

Disruptive Capital in Andean/World Literature: A Decolonial Reading of Enrique Gil Gilbert's Nuestro Pan, Juan G. Ramos

IV. Decolonial Options, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Transregional Alliances

Ethnic Reemergence in Uruguay: The Return of the Charrúa 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 P.

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 Moraña .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781349933587

1349933589