Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and
it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century
colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the
Middle East, and the Caribbean. Colonialism in Latin America
originated centuries earlier, in the transoceanic adventures from
which European modernity itself was born. Coloniality at Large
brings together classic and new reflections on the theoretical
implications of colonialism in Latin America. By pointing out its
particular characteristics, the contributors highlight some of the
philosophical and ideological blind spots of contemporary
postcolonial theory as they offer a thorough analysis of that
theory’s applicability to Latin America’s past and present.
Written by internationally renowned scholars based in Latin
America, the United States, and Europe, the essays reflect multiple
disciplinary and ideological perspectives. Some are translated into
English for the first time. The collection includes theoretical
reflections, literary criticism, and historical and ethnographic
case studies focused on Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, the
Andes, and the Caribbean. Contributors examine the relation of
Marxist thought, dependency theory, and liberation theology to
Latin Americans’ experience of and resistance to coloniality, and
they emphasize the critique of Occidentalism and modernity as
central to any understanding of the colonial project. Analyzing the
many ways that Latin Americans have resisted imperialism and sought
emancipation and sovereignty over several centuries, they delve
into topics including violence, identity, otherness, memory,
heterogeneity, and language. Contributors also explore Latin
American intellectuals’ ambivalence about, or objections to, the
“post” in postcolonial; to many, globalization and
neoliberalism are the contemporary guises of colonialism in Latin
America. Contributors: Arturo Arias, Gordon Brotherston, Santiago
Castro-Gómez, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amaryll Chanady, Fernando
Coronil, Román de la Campa, Enrique Dussel, Ramón Grosfoguel,
Russell G. Hamilton, Peter Hulme, Carlos A. Jáuregui, Michael
Löwy, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, José Antonio Mazzotti, Eduardo
Mendieta, Walter D. Mignolo, Mario Roberto Morales, Mabel Moraña,
Mary Louise Pratt, Aníbal Quijano, José Rabasa, Elzbieta
Sklodowska, Catherine E. Walsh
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