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...
Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as "decolonial" and "coloniality" t...
"Situates key films, poetry, popular songs, and fiction at the crossroad of Latin America's decolonial theory and Ranciere's 'aisthesis.' Incisively delving into the conditions of production corresponding to the multimedia texts analyzed, this book produces a compelling discussion of 'decolonial aesthetics.'"--Sara Castro-Klaren, author of The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves: Writing, Coloniality and Post-Colonial Theory Bringing Latin American popular art out of the margins and into the center of serious scholarship, this book rethinks the cultural canon and recovers previously...
"Situates key films, poetry, popular songs, and fiction at the crossroad of Latin America's decolonial theory and Ranciere's 'aisthesis.' Incisively d...
