The Idea of Latin America

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Wiley, Feb 9, 2009 - History - 224 pages
The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.

  • Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day.
  • Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas.
  • Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders.
  • Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.

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The Idea of Latin America
Walter D. Mignolo
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Walter D. Mignolo
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Walter Mignolo
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About the author (2009)

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wanamaker Professor and Director of Global Studies and the Humanities at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. His recent publications include Local Histories / Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000) and The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995). He is founder and co-editor of the journal, Disposition, and co-founder and co-editor of Nepantla: Views from the South.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Idea of Latin America
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
AuthorWalter D. Mignolo
PublisherWiley, 2009
ISBN1405150173, 9781405150170
Length224 pages
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History / Modern / 16th Century
History / Modern / 19th Century
  
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