The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs "Latin" and "Hispanic" in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction ; 1 Avatars of Colonial Studies of Latin America in the Home of the Brave: A Conversation with Rolena Adorno; 2 About the Postmodernist Convergence of the Baroque, the Subaltern, and Many Other Signs: A Conversation with John Beverley in the Cathedral of Learning; 3 The Pleasure of Literary Criticism without Attachments to Any Method or Ideology Whatsoever: A Conversation with Roberto Gonzá lez Echevarrí a; 4 About the Colonial Difference or the Emergence of Thinking That Was Not Considered to Be Thinking: A Conversation with Walter D. Mignolo; 5 Precolombian Legacies and Indigenous Presents in the History of Mexico; Or How to Find Other Possibilities within Constitutive (Post-)Colonial Violence: A Conversation with José Rabasa; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
