Coloniality at Large

Mabel MoraÑa is the William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Washington University, St. Louis.Enrique Dussel is Professor of Ethics at the Universidad AutÓnoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional AutÓnoma de MÉxico.Carlos A. JÁuregui is Associate Professor of Spanish and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

“In Coloniality at Large, leading postcolonial literary scholars provide thoughtful and incisive insights into the lasting effects of colonial domination in Latin America.”-Patricia Seed, editor of JosÉ LimÓn and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance “Mapping out the current state of a particularly important field of study from an interdisciplinary perspective, Coloniality at Large consists of twenty-three essays by a veritable ‘who’s who’ in Latin American cultural studies.”-Debra A. Castillo, author of Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture “[T]he book is one of the first projects to bring together scholars from different regions and academic systems of the Atlantic. As a result, this compilation offers wide-ranging perspectives and critiques associated with the challenge of discussing Latin America with critical viewpoints in language that is not overly cryptic. This volume is bound to become a referential work for scholars in the field of Latin American Studies and a useful teaching tool for graduate-level courses." - Fabrício Prado (The Americas) “Ambitiously conceived and judiciously executed, this volume offers a timely as well as comprehensive study of modern Latin American culture and history from the perspective of postcolonial theories. . . . Highly recommended.” - Q. E. Wang (Choice) “The collection, which extends to over 600 pages, is both rich and substantial and is likely to provide a valuable, illuminating and corrective resource for scholars of both Latin American and postcolonial studies.” - James Proctor (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) “With a complexity and depth rarely seen in collections of this type, Coloniality at Large will provide food for thought for generations to come.” - Ricardo D. Salvatore (A Contracorriente)

• About the Series viiAcknowledgments ixColonialism and Its Replicants / Mabel Morana, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jauregui 1Part One. Colonial Encounters, Decolonization, and Cultural Agency America and the Colonizer Question: Two Formative Statements from Early Mexico / Gordon Brotherston 23Thinking Europe in Indian Categories, or, "Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You" / Jose Rabasa 43Creole Agencies and the (Post)Colonial Debate in Spanish America / Jose Antonio Mazzotti 77Part Two. Rewriting Colonial Difference European Transplants, Amerindian In-laws, African Settlers, Brazilian Creoles: A Unique Colonial and Postcolonial Condition in Latin America / Russell G. Hamilton 113Posting Letters: Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Debate / Sara Castro-Klaren 130Unforgotten Gods: Postcoloniality and Representations of Haiti in Antonio Benitez Rojo's "Heaven and Earth" 158Part Three. Occidentalism, Globalization, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Social Classification / Anibal Quijano 181The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference / Walter D. Mignolo 225(Post)Coloniality for Dummies: Latin American Perspectives on Modernity, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge / Santiago Castro-Gomez 259Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Post-Occidentalism, and Globalization Theory / Eduardo Mendieta 286Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America / Ramon Grosfoguel 307Part Four. Religion, Liberation, and The Narratives of Secularism Philosophy of Liberation, the Postmodern Debate, and Latin American Studies 335The Historical Meaning of Christianity of Liberation in Latin America / Michael Lowy 350Secularism and Religion in the Modern/Colonial World-System: From Secular Postcoloniality to Postsecular Transmodernity / Nelson Maldonado-Torres 360Part Five. Comparative (Post)Colonialisms Postcolonial Theory and the Representation of Culture in the Americas / Peter Hulme 388Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization / Fernando Coronil 396The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context / Amaryll Chanady 417Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature / Roman de la Campa 435In the Neocolony: Destiny, Destination, and the Traffic in Meaning / Mary Louise Pratt 459Part Six. Postcolonial Ethnicities Peripheral Modernity and Differential Mestizaje in Latin America: Outside Subalternist Postcolonialism / Mario Roberto Morales 479(Post)Coloniality in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement's Practices and Politics of (Re)Signification and Decolonization / Catherine E. Walsh 506The Maya movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency / Arturo Arias 519Bibliography 539Contributors 609Index 615