Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

Ileana RodrÍguez is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University. She is the author of Women, Guerrillas, and Love: Understanding War in Central America and House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Latin American Literatures by Women, also published by Duke University Press.

• Introduction / Ileana RodrÍguez 1I. Convergences of Times: Subaltern Studies C South Asia/Latin America, Modern/Postmodern Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence / Ranajit Guha 35The Im/possibility of Politics? Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony / John Beverley 47Solidarity as Event: Communism as Personal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire / MarÍa Milagros LÓpez 64A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism / Alberto Moreiras 81II. Indigenous Peoples and the Coloniality of Power Rigoberta Menchu After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics / Marc Zimmerman 111No Perfect World: Aboriginal Communities' Contemporary Resource Rights / Patricia Seed 129Historiography on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma / Sara Castro-Klaren 143III. Subject Positions: Dominant and Subaltern Intellectuals? Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism / Doris Sommer 175Beyond Representation? The Impossibility of the Local (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos) / Jose Rabasa 191Questions of Strategy as an Abstract Minimum: Subalternity and Us / Abdul Karim Mustapha 211IV. Ungovernability: Authoritarian and Democratic Hegemonies From Glory to Menace II Society: African-American Subalternity and the Ungovernability of the Democratic Impulse Under Super Capitalist Orders / Robert Carr 227Twenty Preliminary Propositions for a Critical History of International Statecraft in Haiti / Michael Clark 241Death in the Andes: Ungovernability and the Birth of Tragedy in Peru / Gareth Williams 260Outside In and Inside Out: Visualizing Society in Bolivia / Javier Sanjines C. 288V. Citizenship: Resistance, Transgression, Disobedience The Teaching Machine for the Wild Citizen / Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan 313Apprenticeship as Citizenship and Governability / Ileana Rodriguez 341The Architectural Relationship between Gender, Race, and the Bolivian State / Marcia Stephenson 367Gender, Citizenship, and Social Protest: The New Social Movements in Argentina / Marcelo Bergman and Monica Szurmuk 383Who's the Indian in Aztlan? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandon / Josefina Saldana-Portillo 402Coloniality of Power and Subalternity / Walter D. Mignolo 424Contributors 445Index 449

“A very impressive collection of essays. It is unusually successful in being able to retain throughout a coherent theoretical focus, depth and variety of empirical scholarship, a cosmopolitan resistance to scholarly insularity, and an insurgent spirit of questioning received ideas about subaltern groups and their politics. This book deserves a wide readership. The self-conscious, honest, and comparative dialogue that it conducts between the Latin American and the South Asian Subaltern Studies groups will enrich the field of subaltern studies as a whole.”-Dipesh Chakrabarty