Coloniality at Large - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coloniality at Large write by Mabel Moraña. This book was released on 2008. Coloniality at Large available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.
Twenty Theses on Politics
Twenty Theses on Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twenty Theses on Politics write by Enrique Dussel. This book was released on 2008-12-09. Twenty Theses on Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVTranslation of a theoretical manifesto by one of Latin America’s leading political philosophers, interpreting the new wave of radicalism in Latin American politics./div
The Darker Side of Western Modernity
The Darker Side of Western Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Darker Side of Western Modernity write by Walter Mignolo. This book was released on 2011-12-16. The Darker Side of Western Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVA new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ/div
Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You
Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You write by José Rabasa. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation itself, José Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the postcolonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past. Ambitious and innovative (such as the invention of the concepts of elsewhere and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intution), Tell Me the Story of Howl Conquered You embraces the performative force of the native scribe while acknowledging the ineffable traits of 46r-traits that remain untenably foreign to the modern excavator/scholar. Posing provocative questions about the unspoken dialogues between evangelizing friars and their spiritual conquests, this book offers a theoretic-political experiment on the possibility of learning from the tlacuilo ways of seeing the world that dislocate the predominance of the West.
Packaging Post/coloniality
Packaging Post/coloniality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Packaging Post/coloniality write by Richard Watts. This book was released on 2005. Packaging Post/coloniality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'--the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords that enclose the text--mediates creative works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia whose place in the French literary institution was and remains a source of conflict. In order to be acceptable for French bookstore shelves, the novels, essays, and collections of poetry created in colonial territories were deemed to need explanation and sponsorship by an authority in the field. Watts finds the French mission civilisatrice, or 'civilizing mission, ' manifest in prefaces, introductions, and dedications inserted in the books that appeared in the metropole during the height of French imperialism. In the postcolonial era, book packaging reveals a struggle to reverse the power dynamic: Francophone writers introduced each others' texts, yet books still appeared with covers promoting stereotypical images of the Francophone world. This fascinating journey through a particular cultural history of the book is a unique take on the quest for a literary identity. Watts concludes his study by looking at English mediations of Francophone works, with a chapter on reading and teaching Francophone literature in translation.
