Mignolo The Idea of Latin America

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5017-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto whichinsists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to thenation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.
* * Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from itsemergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth centurythrough various permutations to the present day.
* Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea whichsubdivides the Americas.
* Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded bythe image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders.
* Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea whichbelonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-centuryEurope.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mignolo, Walter D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Preface: Uncoupling the Name and the Reference.
1 The Americas, Christian Expansion, and the Modern/ColonialFoundation of Racism.
2 "Latin" America and the First Reordering of theModern/Colonial World.
3 After "Latin" America: The Colonial Wound and theGeo-Political/Body-Political Shift.
Postface: After "America".
Notes.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wanamaker Professor and Director of Global Studies and the Humanities at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. His recent publications include Local Histories / Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000) and The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995). He is founder and co-editor of the journal, Disposition, and co-founder and co-editor of Nepantla: Views from the South.