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Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

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ISBN-10: 0822327120

ISBN-13: 9780822327127

Edition: 2001

Authors: Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Mar�a Milagros L�pez

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Sharing a post-revolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work actively to link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that of class, as contributors focus on the possibilities of investigating history from below. In addition to an opening statement by Ranajit Guha, essay topics include nineteenth century hygiene in Latin American countries, Rigoberta Menchú after the Nobel, commentaries on Haitian and Argentinian…    
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Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Introduction
Convergences of Times: Subaltern Studies C South Asia/Latin America, Modern/Postmodern
Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence
The Im/possibility of Politics? Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony
Solidarity as Event: Communism as Personal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire
A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism
Indigenous Peoples and the Coloniality of Power
Rigoberta Menchu After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics
No Perfect World: Aboriginal Communities' Contemporary Resource Rights
Historiography on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma
Subject Positions: Dominant and Subaltern Intellectuals?
Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism
Beyond Representation? The Impossibility of the Local (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos)
Questions of Strategy as an Abstract Minimum: Subalternity and Us
Ungovernability: Authoritarian and Democratic Hegemonies
From Glory to Menace II Society: African-American Subalternity and the Ungovernability of the Democratic Impulse Under Super Capitalist Orders
Twenty Preliminary Propositions for a Critical History of International Statecraft in Haiti
Death in the Andes: Ungovernability and the Birth of Tragedy in Peru
Outside In and Inside Out: Visualizing Society in Bolivia
Citizenship: Resistance, Transgression, Disobedience
The Teaching Machine for the Wild Citizen
Apprenticeship as Citizenship and Governability
The Architectural Relationship between Gender, Race, and the Bolivian State
Gender, Citizenship, and Social Protest: The New Social Movements in Argentina
Who's the Indian in Aztlan? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandon
Coloniality of Power and Subalternity
Contributors
Index