Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America

Mabel Moraña, Carlos A. Jáuregui (eds.)

From the configuration of Empire in the colonial period to the multiple facets of modern coloniality, this book offers a challenging approach to the developments and effects of imperial domination and neocolonial rule in Latin America. Thought of as a contribution to current debates on postcolonialism and covering an ample range of topics, geocultural fields, and historical scenarios, Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America provides indispensable materials to the study of the formation and representation of colonial and modern subjectivities, the role of historical accounts, cultural practices, and symbolic representation (literary writing, oral narratives, visual images, and artifacts) through which some of the parameters of colonized epistemologies become apparent to the European Other.

Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences and Director of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her latest books include Crítica impura (2004), La escritura del límite (2010), Arguedas / Vargas Llosa. El “demonio feliz” y el hablador (2013) and the co-editions Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Post-colonial Debate (2008) and Colonialidad y crítica en América Latina (2008).

Carlos A. Jáuregui is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Anthropology. One of the most relevant publications is Canibalia: Canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Córdoba, Spain, 2005: second revised edition: Vervuert 2008), winner of the Premio Casa de las Américas 2005. He is co-editor of Colonialidad y crítica en América Latina. Bases para un debate (México: UDLA, 2007 with Mabel Moraña), Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America (Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2008, with M. Moraña), and Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (Duke UP, 2008 with Enrique Dussel and M. Moraña) (FORD-LASA Special Projects Award, 2003).

Heridas abiertas : Biopolítica y representación en América Latina / Mabel Moraña, Ignacio Sánchez Prado (eds.)

Canibalia : Canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina / Carlos A. Jáuregui.

Trayectorias globales : estudios coloniales en el mundo hispánico / Raúl Marrero-Fente.

Cultura y cambio social en América Latina / Mabel Moraña (ed.)