Andrés Guerrero – författare

Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing. Challenging the universalizing tendencies of postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countries-with their creole elites, hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated historical relationships with Spain and the United States-differ from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and postcolonial histories around the world.ContributorsThomas AbercrombieShahid AminJorge CaÑizares-EsguerraPeter GuardinoAndrÉs GuerreroMarixa LassoJavier Morillo-AliceaJoanne RappaportMauricio Tenorio-TrilloMark Thurner

Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing.

Challenging the universalizing tendencies of postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countries—with their creole elites, hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated historical relationships with Spain and the United States—differ from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and postcolonial histories around the world.

ContributorsThomas AbercrombieShahid AminJorge Cañizares-EsguerraPeter GuardinoAndrés GuerreroMarixa LassoJavier Morillo-AliceaJoanne RappaportMauricio Tenorio-TrilloMark Thurner

Azul, la oveja negra y Cinco ovejitas.Dos divertidos cuentos llenos de ovejas del autor e ilustrador Andrés Guerrero.El cuento Cinco ovejitas fue Premio CCEI de Ilustración en 2009.

Aquí comienza el lugar prohibido donde reina el tigre blanco.Esta historia pasó hace muchos años. Tantos que hoy ya nadie habla de ella. Aquellos que aún la recuerdan aseguran que fue tan solo una leyenda de tantas que se fraguaron en lo más recóndito de la selva. Pero no lo es. Nunca lo fue.Un día, el azar quiso que el destino de mi hermana Duna se cruzara con el del tigre blanco.Y juntos encontraron su lugar.

Una fabula sobre llegar a conseguir las metas que nos proponemos. Yak es un yak que quiere participar en las carreras de caballos que se celebran en la estepa. Todo el mundo piensa que es una locura, hasta que se rebela como un gran corredor capaz de vencer a casi todos sus contrincantes. Esto provoca una pequena revolucion en la familia, y sus miembros se empiezan a replantear sus tareas y labores.

Es el primer día de cole, pero Matilde no quiere ir montada en su escoba. Su madre insiste en que todas las brujas vuelan en sus escobas, y entonces Matilde lo tiene claro: No quiere ser bruja. Pero ¿qué quiere ser Matilde?