Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures [Hardcover]

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.

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction  Decolonial Strategies for Reading and Looking Against the Grain

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(Juan G. Ramos and Tara Daly)

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I.?????????????????? Undisciplining Spanish and Literature?

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1.????? Notes from the Field: Decolonizing the Curriculum/The Spanish Major

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(Sara Castro-Klar?n, The Johns Hopkins University)

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2.????? The Rule of Impurity: Decolonial Theory and the Question of Literature

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(Horacio Legr?s, University of California, Irvine)

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II.??????????????? Decolonizing Translation and Representations of the Indigenous

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3.????? The (De)coloniality of Conceptual InequivalencelC"