Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- 1 Indigenous Herencias
- 2 Performing to a Captive Audience
- 3 The Tricks of the Weak
- 4 Rethinking the Colonial Latinx Literary Imaginary
- 5 The Historical and Imagined Cultural Genealogies of Latinidad
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
1 - Indigenous Herencias
Creoles, Mestizaje, and Nations before Nationalism
from Part I - Rereading the Colonial Archive
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- 1 Indigenous Herencias
- 2 Performing to a Captive Audience
- 3 The Tricks of the Weak
- 4 Rethinking the Colonial Latinx Literary Imaginary
- 5 The Historical and Imagined Cultural Genealogies of Latinidad
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Centering the question of how coloniality staged the conceptual clash of peoples and ideas, this chapter locates the first expressions of transculturation in Latin America within the contact zones created by European colonialism and the Indigenous subaltern responses to it that ultimately became a critical element in the forging of contemporary Latina/o identities. The chapter critiques the claim of European colonialism to uniquely narrate the encounter between Europeans and indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, as this attitude underwrites the privileging of colonial ways of knowing and the dismissal of Indigenous ones. It provides a more sedimented genealogy of categories and concepts such as “creoles,” “mestizaje,” “hybridity,” and “nations” that ultimately scarred U.S. Latina/os, to conclude that Latina/o literatures always evidence the phantasmatic presence of indigeneity. We have to locate this problematic in the intersectionalities of race, and further plunge into the instabilities of racial geographies that continue to mark Latinidad.
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