The Latin American subaltern studies reader

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The Latin American subaltern studies reader

edited by Ileana Rodríguez

(Latin America otherwise)

Duke University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 Menchu 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-Klaren, Michael Clark, Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, Ranajit Guha, Maria Milagros Lopez , Walter Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Jose Rabasa, Ileana Rodriguez, Josefina Saldana-Portillo, Javier Sanjines, C. Patricia Seed, Doris Sommer, Marcia Stephenson, Monica Szurmuk, Gareth Williams, Marc Zimmerman

Table of Contents

Introduction / Ileana Rodriguez 1 I. Convergences of Times: Subaltern Studies C South Asia/Latin America, Modern/Postmodern Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence / Ranajit Guha 35 The Im/possibility of Politics? Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony / John Beverley 47 Solidarity as Event: Communism as Personal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire / Maria Milagros Lopez 64 A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism / Alberto Moreiras 81 II. Indigenous Peoples and the Coloniality of Power Rigoberta Menchu After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics / Marc Zimmerman 111 No Perfect World: Aboriginal Communities' Contemporary Resource Rights / Patricia Seed 129 Historiography on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma / Sara Castro-Klaren 143 III. Subject Positions: Dominant and Subaltern Intellectuals? Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism / Doris Sommer 175 Beyond Representation? The Impossibility of the Local (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos) / Jose Rabasa 191 Questions of Strategy as an Abstract Minimum: Subalternity and Us / Abdul Karim Mustapha 211 IV. Ungovernability: Authoritarian and Democratic Hegemonies From Glory to Menace II Society: African-American Subalternity and the Ungovernability of the Democratic Impulse Under Super Capitalist Orders / Robert Carr 227 Twenty Preliminary Propositions for a Critical History of International Statecraft in Haiti / Michael Clark 241 Death in the Andes: Ungovernability and the Birth of Tragedy in Peru / Gareth Williams 260 Outside In and Inside Out: Visualizing Society in Bolivia / Javier Sanjines C. 288 V. Citizenship: Resistance, Transgression, Disobedience The Teaching Machine for the Wild Citizen / Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan 313 Apprenticeship as Citizenship and Governability / Ileana Rodriguez 341 The Architectural Relationship between Gender, Race, and the Bolivian State / Marcia Stephenson 367 Gender, Citizenship, and Social Protest: The New Social Movements in Argentina / Marcelo Bergman and Monica Szurmuk 383 Who's the Indian in Aztlan? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandon / Josefina Saldana-Portillo 402 Coloniality of Power and Subalternity / Walter D. Mignolo 424 Contributors 445 Index 449

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