Overview
- Explores the cultural and critical translation of key terms in Caribbean and Latin American Studies from English to Spanish using experiences in the classroom as a point of departure
- Unpacks moments of misunderstanding and misreading in which critical terms circulate as disciplinary cognates yet become particularly untranslatable as a result of their different origins and genealogies
- Resists the simplification that the validation of scholarship produced in the native languages of Caribbean and Latin American scholars are more authentic than research produced elsewhere
- Promotes more open communication, play, and exchange of ideas between US-centered debates, as well as conversations, frameworks, and debates central to Latin America and the Caribbean
Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Criollismo/Creolization
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Front Matter
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Transculturation
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think—epistemologically and pedagogically—about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.
Reviews
“Poised to be an indispensable intellectual referent for scholars of the region…this carefully curated set of critical terms presents a sustained engagement across authors and regions, allowing the dense intellectual and political investments of the terms to fully emerge.” (Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
“This ground-breaking anthology traces most of the fundamental intellectual debates in Caribbean and Latin American studies, advanced by US, Caribbean, and Latin American based scholars, and gives an unusual and rigorous perspective on the trajectories of key concepts. It reminds us of the urgency of sharing critical references across cultural traditions.” (Marta Lamas, Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico)
About the authors
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. She is author of From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan Caribbean Context.
Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. He is author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature and The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives.
Marisa Belausteguigoitia is Professor of Gender/Cultural Studies and Education at the School of Humanities at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). She is author with María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo of Des/posesión: Género y territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought
Book Subtitle: Historical and Institutional Trajectories
Editors: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Marisa Belausteguigoitia
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137547903
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55429-1Published: 17 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55764-6Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54790-3Published: 26 January 2016
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 299
Topics: Latin American Culture, North American Literature, Applied Linguistics, Romance Languages, Media Studies, Intellectual Studies