Coloniality at large : Latin America and the postcolonial debate

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Coloniality at large : Latin America and the postcolonial debate

edited by Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jáuregui

(Latin America otherwise)

Duke University Press, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [539]-608) and index

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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 Large brings 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 theory's applicability to Latin America'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 Americans' 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 intellectuals' 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-Gomez, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amaryll Chanady, Fernando Coronil, Roman de la Campa, Enrique Dussel, Ramon Grosfoguel, Russell G. Hamilton, Peter Hulme, Carlos A. Jauregui, Michael Loewy, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Eduardo Mendieta, Walter D. Mignolo, Mario Roberto Morales, Mabel Morana, Mary Louise Pratt, Anibal Quijano, Jose Rabasa, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Catherine E. Walsh

Table of Contents

About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Colonialism and Its Replicants / Mabel Morana, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jauregui 1 Part One. Colonial Encounters, Decolonization, and Cultural Agency America and the Colonizer Question: Two Formative Statements from Early Mexico / Gordon Brotherston 23 Thinking Europe in Indian Categories, or, "Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You" / Jose Rabasa 43 Creole Agencies and the (Post)Colonial Debate in Spanish America / Jose Antonio Mazzotti 77 Part Two. Rewriting Colonial Difference European Transplants, Amerindian In-laws, African Settlers, Brazilian Creoles: A Unique Colonial and Postcolonial Condition in Latin America / Russell G. Hamilton 113 Posting Letters: Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Debate / Sara Castro-Klaren 130 Unforgotten Gods: Postcoloniality and Representations of Haiti in Antonio Benitez Rojo's "Heaven and Earth" 158 Part Three. Occidentalism, Globalization, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Social Classification / Anibal Quijano 181 The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference / Walter D. Mignolo 225 (Post)Coloniality for Dummies: Latin American Perspectives on Modernity, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge / Santiago Castro-Gomez 259 Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Post-Occidentalism, and Globalization Theory / Eduardo Mendieta 286 Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America / Ramon Grosfoguel 307 Part Four. Religion, Liberation, and The Narratives of Secularism Philosophy of Liberation, the Postmodern Debate, and Latin American Studies 335 The Historical Meaning of Christianity of Liberation in Latin America / Michael Lowy 350 Secularism and Religion in the Modern/Colonial World-System: From Secular Postcoloniality to Postsecular Transmodernity / Nelson Maldonado-Torres 360 Part Five. Comparative (Post)Colonialisms Postcolonial Theory and the Representation of Culture in the Americas / Peter Hulme 388 Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization / Fernando Coronil 396 The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context / Amaryll Chanady 417 Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature / Roman de la Campa 435 In the Neocolony: Destiny, Destination, and the Traffic in Meaning / Mary Louise Pratt 459 Part Six. Postcolonial Ethnicities Peripheral Modernity and Differential Mestizaje in Latin America: Outside Subalternist Postcolonialism / Mario Roberto Morales 479 (Post)Coloniality in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement's Practices and Politics of (Re)Signification and Decolonization / Catherine E. Walsh 506 The Maya movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency / Arturo Arias 519 Bibliography 539 Contributors 609 Index 615

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