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After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
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Description for After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
Paperback. Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, this title features essays that give insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia. Editor(s): Thurner, Mark; Guerrero, Andres G. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822331940
SKU
V9780822331940
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About Thurner
Mark Thurner is Associate Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is the author of From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, also published by Duke University Press. Andrés Guerrero is affiliated with La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), a research institute with branches in all Latin American ... Read more
Reviews for After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
“After Spanish Rule occupies the ground between Latin American exceptionalism and the so-called universalism of postcolonial studies. These essays enrich the field of postcolonial studies by bringing Latin American materials within its purview.”—Gyan Prakash, editor of After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements