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Author : Mabel Moraña
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 697/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Coloniality at Large by : Mabel Moraña
Download or read book Coloniality at Large written by Mabel Moraña. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.
Author : Enrique Dussel
Release : 2008-12-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Twenty Theses on Politics by : Enrique Dussel
Download or read book Twenty Theses on Politics written by Enrique Dussel. This book was released on 2008-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTranslation of a theoretical manifesto by one of Latin America’s leading political philosophers, interpreting the new wave of radicalism in Latin American politics./div
Author : Walter Mignolo
Release : 2011-12-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 785/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Darker Side of Western Modernity by : Walter Mignolo
Download or read book The Darker Side of Western Modernity written by Walter Mignolo. This book was released on 2011-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ/div
Author : José Rabasa
Release : 2011-10-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 751/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You by : José Rabasa
Download or read book Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You written by José Rabasa. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation itself, José Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the postcolonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past. Ambitious and innovative (such as the invention of the concepts of elsewhere and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intution), Tell Me the Story of Howl Conquered You embraces the performative force of the native scribe while acknowledging the ineffable traits of 46r-traits that remain untenably foreign to the modern excavator/scholar. Posing provocative questions about the unspoken dialogues between evangelizing friars and their spiritual conquests, this book offers a theoretic-political experiment on the possibility of learning from the tlacuilo ways of seeing the world that dislocate the predominance of the West.
Author : Richard Watts
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Packaging Post/coloniality by : Richard Watts
Download or read book Packaging Post/coloniality written by Richard Watts. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'--the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords that enclose the text--mediates creative works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia whose place in the French literary institution was and remains a source of conflict. In order to be acceptable for French bookstore shelves, the novels, essays, and collections of poetry created in colonial territories were deemed to need explanation and sponsorship by an authority in the field. Watts finds the French mission civilisatrice, or 'civilizing mission, ' manifest in prefaces, introductions, and dedications inserted in the books that appeared in the metropole during the height of French imperialism. In the postcolonial era, book packaging reveals a struggle to reverse the power dynamic: Francophone writers introduced each others' texts, yet books still appeared with covers promoting stereotypical images of the Francophone world. This fascinating journey through a particular cultural history of the book is a unique take on the quest for a literary identity. Watts concludes his study by looking at English mediations of Francophone works, with a chapter on reading and teaching Francophone literature in translation.
