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
4 - Rethinking the Colonial Latinx Literary Imaginary
A Comparative and Decolonial Research Agenda
from Part I - Rereading the Colonial Archive
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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
This essay analyzes how two Latinx histories, as well as three anthologies, reclaim the Spanish colonial period as part of their archive to theorize how to undertake a decolonial reading of colonial texts within Latinx literary history. My analysis illustrates the tense and contradictory path for the inclusion of the colonial period in the “Latino Literary Imagination” by reviewing how some Latinx histories and anthologies have dealt with this issue. I propose that scholars incorporate the colonial archive, while keeping a critical distance from anachronistic interpretations of texts produced before the notion of Latinidad was conceived. The essay concludes by proposing a decolonial agenda that would ideally enrich Latinx and Colonial Latin American studies as fields of knowledge production.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 93 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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