Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Series vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. PART ONE COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, DECOLONIZATION, AND CULTURAL AGENCY
6. Gordon Brotherston, America and the Colonizer Question: Two Formative Statements from Early Mexico 23
7. José Rabasa, Thinking Europe in Indian Categories, or, ‘‘Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You’’ 43
8. José Antonio Mazzotti, Creole Agencies and the (Post)Colonial Debate in Spanish America 77
9. PART TWO REWRITING COLONIAL DIFFERENCE
10. Russell G. Hamilton, European Transplants, Amerindian In-laws, African Settlers, Brazilian Creoles: A Unique Colonial and Postcolonial Condition in Latin America 113
11. Sara Castro-Klaren, Posting Letters: Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Debate 130
12. Elzbieta Sklodowska, Unforgotten Gods: Postcoloniality and Representations of Haiti in Antonio Benítez Rojo’s ‘‘Heaven and Earth’’ 158
13. PART THREE OCCIDENTALISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
14. Aníbal Quijano, Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America 181
15. Walter D. Mignolo, The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Di√erence 225
16. Santiago Castro-Gómez, (Post)Coloniality for Dummies: Latin American Perspectives on Modernity, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge 259
17. Eduardo Mendieta, Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Post-Occidentalism, and Globalization Theory 286
18. Ramón Grosfoguel, Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America 307
19. PART FOUR RELIGION, LIBERATION, AND THE NARRATIVES OF SECULARISM
20. Enrique Dussel, Philosophy of Liberation, the Postmodern Debate, and Latin American Studies 335
21. Michael Löwy, The Historical Meaning of Christianity of Liberation in Latin America 350
22. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Secularism and Religion in the Modern/Colonial World-System: From Secular Postcoloniality to Postsecular Transmodernity 360
23. PART FIVE COMPARATIVE (POST)COLONIALISMS
24. Peter Hulme, Postcolonial Theory and the Representation of Culture in the Americas 388
25. Fernando Coronil, Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 396
26. Amaryll Chanady, The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context 417
27. Román de la Campa, Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature 435
28. Mary Louise Pratt, In the Neocolony: Destiny, Destination, and the Tra≈c in Meaning 459
29. PART SIX POSTCOLONIAL ETHNICITIES
30. Mario Roberto Morales, Peripheral Modernity and Di√erential Mestizaje in Latin America: Outside Subalternist Postcolonialism 479
31. Catherine E. Walsh, (Post)Coloniality in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement’s Practices and Politics of (Re)Signification and Decolonization 506
32. Arturo Arias, The Maya Movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency 519
33. Bibliography 539
34. Contributors 609
35. Index 615