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Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that of class, as contributors focus on the possibilities of investigating history from below.In addition to an overview by Ranajit Guha, essay topics include nineteenth-century hygiene in Latin American countries, Rigoberta Menchu after the Nobel, commentaries on Haitian and Argentinian issues, the relationship between gender and race in Bolivia, and ungovernability and tragedy in Peru. Providing a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, the essays included here prove that Latin American Subaltern Studies is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.Contributors. Marcelo Bergman, John Beverley, Robert Carr, Sara Castro-Klaren, Michael Clark, Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, Ranajit Guha, Maria Milagros Lopez , Walter Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Jose Rabasa, Ileana Rodriguez, Josefina Saldana-Portillo, Javier Sanjines, C. Patricia Seed, Doris Sommer, Marcia Stephenson, Monica Szurmuk, Gareth Williams, Marc Zimmerman

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Duke University Press

Date de parution

24 septembre 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822380771

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English

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TheLatinAmericanSubalternStudiesReader

A book in the series

Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations

Series editors

WalterD.Mignolo,DukeUniversity

Irene Silverblatt, Duke University

Sonia Saldívar-Hull, University of California at Los Angeles

TheLatinAmerican

Subaltern Studies Reader

Edited by Ileana Rodríguez

Duke University Press

Durham and London 2001

∫2001 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$

Typeset in Carter and Cone Galliard by Keystone Typesetting Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

appear on the last printed page of this book.

To María Milagros López (1950–1997) Inmemory

Everything has to do with everything else

I lament the demise of my friend and colleague

María Milagros López. Raised in Puerto Rico and

educated in France, she had the grace of

transforming everyday life occurrences and funny

ready-made phrases into serious theoretical questions.

I miss her sharpness of mind and her sense

of pleasure and wit.

Contents

Ileana Rodríguez

Ranajit Guha

John Beverley

María Milagros López

Alberto Moreiras

MarcZimmerman

Acknowledgments

About the Series

Reading Subalterns Across Texts, Disciplines,andTheories:From Representation to Recognition 1

i. convergences of times: subaltern studies south asia / latin america, modern / postmodern

Subaltern Studies: ProjectsforOurTimeandTheirConvergence

TheIm/possibilityofPolitics: Subalternity,Modernity,Hegemony

SolidarityasEvent,CommunismasPersonal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire 64

A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism 81

ii. indigenous peoples and the coloniality of power

RigobertaMenchúAftertheNobel:From MilitantNarrativetoPostmodernPolitics111

Patricia Seed

Sara Castro-Klarén

DorisSommer

José Rabasa

Abdul-Karim Mustapha

Robert Carr

Michael Clark

GarethWilliams

Javier Sanjinés C.

Beatriz González Stephan

Ileana Rodríguez

NoPerfectWorld:AboriginalCommunities’ ContemporaryResourceRights129

Historiography on the Ground: TheToledoCircleandGuamánPoma

143

iii. subject positions: dominant and subaltern intellectuals?

SlapsandEmbraces:ARhetoric of Particularism 175

BeyondRepresentation?TheImpossibilityofthe Local (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlán, Morelos) 191

QuestionsofStrategyasanAbstractMinimum: Subalternity and Us 211

iv. ungovernability: authoritarian and democratic hegemonies

FromGlorytoMenace II Society: African AmericanSubalternityandtheUngovernability oftheDemocraticImpulseunderSuper-Capitalist Orders 227

TwentyPreliminaryPropositionsforaCritical History of International Statecraft in Haiti 241

Death in the Andes:Ungovernability and the Birth of Tragedy in Peru 260

Outside In and Inside Out: Visualizing Society in Bolivia 288

v. citizenship: resistance, transgression, disobedience

The Teaching Machine for the WildCitizen313

Apprenticeship as Citizenship and Governability 341

contents

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Marcia Stephenson

MarceloBergmanand MónicaSzurmuk

Joseﬁna Saldaña-Portillo

WalterD.Mignolo

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contents

TheArchitecturalRelationshipbetweenGender, Race, and the Bolivian State 367

Gender, Citizenship, and Social Protest: TheNewSocialMovementsinArgentina

Who’stheIndianinAztlán?Re-Writing Mestizaje,Indianism,andChicanismofrom the Lacandón 402

Coloniality of Power and Subalternity

Contributors

Index

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445

383

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Acknowledgments

This book was going to be edited by María Milagros López and myself. This book was going to be our book. One of the policies of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group was that of joining the e√orts of social scientists to those of cultural critics. Milli, as we called her, organized the third Subalternist meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1994 where some of the papers included in this volume were presented. Sometime after the meeting Milli and I began reading the papers and exchanging ideas. I remember one of her comments particularly. Milli was adamantly opposed to the category of alienation. She thought that was the quintessential way of academicians to look down on the ‘‘poor.’’ She also disliked ‘‘negation’’ and ‘‘revolution’’ for reasons she never made explicit to me. She wanted us to read the work of Antonio Negri. These were some of the exchanges we had over the phone. From her work in this volume, we can gather the directions Milli was moving toward. She was working with very interesting concepts such as the ‘‘post-work’’ society, and the sense of history of marginal people. They had a pressing sense of present and very little sense of future. She certainly was moving in the direction of pleasure. In this, she was our link to other ways of looking at the ﬁeld, to other colleagues. We were still much centered on pain. But pleasure is one of the fundamental tools that subalterns use to contest hegemony. Unfortunately, our dialogue was interrupted around 1996 and totally se-vered with her death in 1997. She did not have time to see all the articles in this volume. I will forever miss her valuable input, but most of all, I missed her company during this journey. Milli’s spirit, sense of humor, common sense, and solidarity were with me during these years of waiting. With her collabora-tion, this introduction would have been substantially richer. I want to thank Robert Carr, Patricia Seed, Anupama Mande, Derek Petrey, and John Beverley for helping me with the rewrite of this introduction in English. John Beverley, however, did the ﬁnal and most severe editing. All of them were very generous with their time, and without their editorial correc-

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