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Decolonizing Indigeneity - New Approaches to Latin American Literature (Paperback)
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Decolonizing Indigeneity - New Approaches to Latin American Literature (Paperback)
Series: Latin American Decolonial and Postcolonial Literature
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While there are differences between cultures in different places
and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally
suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of
being represented as nations. Colonial representations of
indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can
still be detected in our time. The thesis of this book is that
there are various ways to decolonize the representation of
Amerindian peoples. Each chapter has its own decolonial thesis
which it then resolves. Chapter 1 proves that there is coloniality
in contemporary scholarship and argues that word choices can be
improved to decolonize the way we describe the first Americans.
Chapter 2 argues that literature in Latin American begins before
1492 and shows the long arc of Mayan expression, taking the Popol
Wuj as a case study. Chapter 3 demonstrates how colonialist
discourse is reinforced by a dualist rhetorical ploy of ignorance
and arrogance in a Renaissance historical chronicle, Agustin de
Zarate's Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Peru. Chapter
4 shows how by inverting the Renaissance dualist configuration of
civilization and barbarian, the Nahua (Aztecs) who were formerly
considered barbarian can be "civilized" within Spanish norms. This
is done by modeling the categories of civilization discussed at
length by the Friar Bartolome de las Casas as a template that can
serve to evaluate Nahua civil society as encapsulated by the
historiography of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a possibility
that would have been available to Spaniards during that time.
Chapter 5 maintains that the colonialities of the pre-Independence
era survive, but that Criollo-indigenous dialogue is capable of
excavating their roots to extirpate them. By comparing the
discussions of the hacienda system by the Peruvian essayist Manuel
Gonzalez Prada and by the Mayan-Quiche eye-witness to history
Rigoberta Menchu, this books shows that there is common ground
between their viewpoints despite the different genres in which
their work appears and despite the different countries and the
eight decades that separated them, suggesting a universality to the
problem of the hacienda which can be dissected. This book models
five different decolonizing methods to extricate from the
continuities of coloniality both indigenous writing and the
representation of indigenous peoples by learned elites.
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