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The
Postcolonial Condition:
Representations of Nationhood, Identity, and Ethnicity
in Latin America (in progress)
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Literary representations
of postcoloniality
in Latin America
are at the center of my
inquiry, which evolves around
the question whether the area may or may not be considered as a
postcolonial space. I am keenly aware of the danger the question
itself poses: namely the essentialist homogenization of a
culturally, racially and historically diverse area. I scrutinize
exemplary texts: chronicles, key novels and seminal essays in my
exploration of the transition from colonial to postcolonial
of a racially and culturally heterogeneous continent.
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PERENNIAL EMPIRE |
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Perennial
Empire
Co-edited with
Chantal Zabus
Amsterdam: Rodopi
(2009)
Table of content
Preface
This
collection of fourteen articles, presents new scholarship on the subject
of empire building from a postcolonial perspective.
Applying various
postcolonial theories and often moving beyond the theories articulated
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire (2000), scholars
scrutinize the relation between colonizer and colonized, and between
metropolis and colonies in the Maghreb, France, Latin America and
Australia.
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Democracy in Chile:
The Legacy of September 11, 1973
Co-edited with
Fernando Leiva.
London:
Sussex Academic Press,
2005
Table of Content
"This volume gives an overall
view of Chile today and it offers the reader an instructive glimpse into
what the future might hold for the country"
Marjorie Agosín
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Winner of the
Arthur P.
Whitaker Prize
for best book in Latin American Studies
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Reviews:
Contracorriente
3, 3 (2006) 96-106
European
Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 81 (2006) 127-128
The Americas,
64 (2007) 120-121
Reference and Research,
21,1 February (2006) 94
Choice, 43, 9 (May 2006)
Bulletin of Latin American Research,
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Arte de vivir: Aproximaciones críticas
a la obra poética de Pedro Lastra
Co-edited with
Luis Correa-Díaz.
RIL/La
Biblioteca Nacional de
Chile, 2006
Table of
Content
A collection of articles
written by literary critics specializing in poetry, and by poets, such as
Gonzalo Rojas, Carlos Germán
Belli, Enrique Lihn and Óscar Hahn among others, about Pedro Lastra's poetic
oeuvre, with an article-length introduction by the editors.
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Selected to be part of the
"Memorias de Chile" series of
the Biblioteca Nacional.
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Reviews:
La Nacion (Chile) March 28, 2007
El Mercurio de
Valparaiso (Chile) May 11, 2007
Mapocho: Revista de Humanidades
(Chile) December 2007
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana
XXXIV, 67. Lima-Hanover, 2008
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Le Maghreb
Postcolonial
Special Issue of the
Celaan Review
2003
A collection of articles by Eric
Sellin, Allison Rice, Isabel Larrivée, Annie Devergnas-Dieumegard, Laura K. Reeck, Pamela A. Pears, Ernstpeter Ruhe, Mohamed
Salah-Zeliche, Lotfi Sayahi, Mounira Chatti, and Deirdre Bucher Heistad with an
introduction by the editor, S.N.Z.
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A collection of ten articles on neoindigenismo, -the
term covers the narrative strategies of representation of the
Indigenous subject- of textualities treating the Indigenous referent in a wide generic and national variety with an
article-length introduction.
Review:
Hispania. 83, 2 (2000): 248-249.
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Thirteen articles grouped in four sections that reflect the
diversity of discursive practices in the Hispanic world. The articles
display a variety of critical tools and theoretical approaches.
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Reviews:
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana XIX 37 (1993): 370-372.
South Eastern
Latinamericanist 34 (1991): 34. |
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Analysis of Andean (Peruvian, Bolivian and
Ecuadorian) folksongs as poetic
texts establishing the criteria for the Incan poetic tradition which
survives today. Includes an anthology of Andean folksongs, many them come
from the author's own collection. |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
The Question of Agency:
Representations of the
Postcolonial Female Subject.
(Book-length project) |
Cultural theories have focused on the extent to which representation and language are crucial to identity
formation and the construction of subjectivity. My aim is to examine how
postcolonial and feminist ideas (those of Bhabha, Spivak, Loomba, Mohanty,
Suleri, among others) may be applied to the analysis of writing by women in the
postcolonial world. I argue that these authors
represent in their work, Trinh Minh-ha's "triple bind", indicative of the
condition of the postcolonial female subjects, that ultimately determines the position from which the
authors
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