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Colonialism past and Present

Name: Colonialism past and Present
Author: Alvaro Felix Bolanos
ISBN: 9780791451465

by Alvaro Felix Bolanos (Editor), Gustavo Verdesio

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Overview

An examination of historical and literary texts produced in colonial Latin America. Eleven articles, gathered by Bola<~n>os (Romance languages and literatures, U. of Florida) and Verdesio (Romance languages and literatures, U. of Michigan), attempt to understand how the colonial legacies still present across Latin America condition and inform studies of the colonial past. The majority of the articles study social situations of the past understood as the origins of present day social situations, while the remainder focus on the reading of those colonial situations produced by present-day scholars. Specific topics include the representation of gender and deviance in the 18th-century Peruvian newspaper Mercurio Peruano, order and indeterminacy in Spanish American poetics, the connections between Pre-Columbian pasts and present-day Indians in Mexico, and the historical novels of Abel Posse and Juan José Saer.

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Synopsis

This collection of essays offers alternative readings of historical and literary texts produced during Latin Americas colonial period. By considering the political and ideological implications of the texts interpretation yesterday and today, it attempts to decolonize the field of Latin American studies and promote an ethical, interdisciplinary practice that does not falsify or appropriate knowledge produced by both the colonial subjects of the past and the oppressed subjects of the present.