Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought: Historical and Institutional Trajectories

by Yolanda Martïnez-San Miguel (Editor), Ben. Sifuentes-Jïuregui (Editor), Marisa Belausteguigoitia (Editor)

Overview

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think—epistemologically and pedagogically—about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137554291
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/17/2015
Series:	New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. She is author of From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan Caribbean Context.

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. He is author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature and The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives.

Marisa Belausteguigoitia is Professor of Gender/Cultural Studies and Education at the School of Humanities at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). She is author with María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo of Des/posesión: Género y territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Latin American Keywords Project: A Critical Disciplinary Genealogy; Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, and Marisa Belausteguigoitia.- 1. Indigenism, Zapatismo and Indigeneidad: Listening to the Space of Silence; Marisa Belausteguigoitia.- 2. Indigenismo as Nationalism, From the Liberal to the Revolutionary Era; María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.- 3. Americanism/o: Intercultural Border Zones in Post-social Times; Juan Poblete.- 4. Americanism/o and the Internalization of U.S. Imperialism: A Response to Juan Poblete; John Carlos Rowe.- 5. Colonialism, Postcolonial, Neocolonial, Internal Colonialism, Coloniality and Decoloniality; Nelson Maldonado Torres.- 6. Mapping Colonial Resistance: Colonialism, Anti- '' ''Indianism, '' '' and Nationalism in the Americas; Leece Lee-Oliver.- 7. Criollismo, Creole and Créolité; José Antonio Mazzotti.- 8. Creole, Criollismo and Créolité; H. Adlai Murdoch.- 9. Race and the Constitutive Inequality of the Modern/Colonial Condition; José Buscaglia-Salgado.- 10. The Asian Presence in Mestizo Nations: A Response; Kathleen López.- 11. Transculturation, Syncretism, and Hibridity; Jossianna Arroyo.- 12. The Persistence of Racism in Critical Imaginaries on Latin America; Laura Catelli.- 13. Modernity and Modernization: the Geopolitical Relocation of Latin America; Graciela Montaldo.- 14. Beyond Modernity; Alejandra Laera.- 15. The Latin America Nation and its Cultural Inscriptions: Archives of Promise or Lament?; Román de la Campa.- 16. Multiplicity and its Discontents: A Response to Román de la Campa; Héctor Hoyos.- 17. Gender/Género in Latin America; Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.- 18. Gender Travels South: Response to Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes; Montserrat Sagot.- 19. Queer/Sexualities; Licia Fiol Matta.- 20. Queer Articulations; Carlos Figari.- 21. Testimonio: The Witness, the Truth and the Inaudible; Ana Forcinito.- 22. Enunciating Alleged Truths: A Response to Ana Forcinito; Arturo Arias.- 23. Lo popular/ Popular Culture: Performing the Borders of Power and Resistance; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.- 24. Globalized Digital Popular Cultures: A Response to Ignacio Sánchez Prado; Susan Antebi.

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From the Publisher

“This transnational tour (and tour de force) around key concepts fosters urgent dialogues and friendly tussles, while putting Latin America into sharp focus in contemporary theoretical debates. This book challenges us to think more deeply and complexly about our use and misuse of theory. It is soon to be an essential book in all our classrooms... .” (Debra A. Castillo, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Cornell University, USA)

“Poised to be an indispensable intellectual referent for scholars of the region…this carefully curated set of critical terms presents a sustained engagement across authors and regions, allowing the dense intellectual and political investments of the terms to fully emerge.” (Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

“This ground-breaking anthology traces most of the fundamental intellectual debates in Caribbean and Latin American studies, advanced by US, Caribbean, and Latin American based scholars, and gives an unusual and rigorous perspective on the trajectories of key concepts. It reminds us of the urgency of sharing critical references across cultural traditions.” (Marta Lamas, Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico)