Occidental readings, decolonial practices : a selection on gender, genre, and coloniality in the Americas / Julia Roth
- Author:
- Roth, Julia
- Published:
- Tempe, AZ : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
- Series:
- Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos ; Volume 10
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I.Introduction: Three Modes of Intervention -- Prelude -- 1.Victoria Ocampo's Essayistic Interventions -- 2.Frida Kahlo's Painted Diary -- 3.Rigoberta Menchu's Testimonio -- 4.Transnational Genre Politics -- II.Tropical Tropes: Colonization as En-Gendering -- 1.Colonial Mappings and the Beginnings of Epistemic Occidentalism -- 2.>Americus meets America<: The Conquest as Heterosexual Love Story -- 3.Excursus: Decolonizing Genres -- 4.Enlightenment Consolidations -- 5.>US< and >Them<: Establishing Hierarchies through Developmentalism -- 6.Global Crises and Local Forms of Resistance in the 21st Century -- 7.Towards Entangled Americas -- III.The Male Monologue Doesn't Suffice: Victoria Ocampo's Essays -- 1.On Inquisition and Independence: Spanish American Essays -- 2.Displacements & Cultural Translations: Ocampo's Dialogic Essayism -- 3.Two Women Speaking About Women: A Dialogue With Virginia Woolf -- 4.Essayistic Dialogues with Frank, Ortega Y Gasset, Tagore, Sontag -- 5.Dismantling >The Master's House< through Essays? -- IV.Who or What is Disintegrating? Frida Kahlo's Painted Diary -- 1.Fridamanias and Devouring Mythologies: Occidental Kahlo Criticism -- 2.Re/Constructing Frida: Art Goes Biography Goes Bio-Pic -- 3.Diaristic Practices: Questioning Conformity at all Levels -- 4.Unfamiliar Colors: Kahlo's Essay >>Portrait of Diego<< -- 5.Inside/Outside the >Master's House<: Diaristic Disidentifications -- 6.Madonna Would Be Frida Kahlo, or, Who Owns La Gran Ocultadora -- V.The Traps and Scars of Translation: Rigoberta Menchu's Testimonio -- 1.Syncretic Practices of Survival: Menchu's Testimonial Use of Religion -- 2.Canon Fodder for the Culture Wars: The Stoll/Menchu Controversy -- 3.Ethnic Ventriloquist or Sister in Struggle? The Testimonial Redactor -- 4.A Site of Memory, Survival & Resistance: The Genre of the Testimonio -- 5.The Testimonial Mode and the Authority of the Eye-Witness -- 6.The Genre of the Testimonio -- 7.No >Master's Tools<: Testimonio and Slave Narrative -- 8.Multiple Marginalizations, Double Militancy: Testimonio & Gender -- 9.Unsimultaneities, Intranslatabilities and Tensions -- 10.Subject to Change: Testimonio as Agency? -- VI.Interlude: Tropical Tropes Reloaded? Specters of Humboldt in Germany -- VII.Outlook -- 1.Embracing Differences or Consuming the Other? -- 2.Neo/Colonial Memories -- De/Colonial Horizons -- VIII.Bibliography -- XI.List of Figures.
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- ISBN:
- 9781939743077 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1939743079 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-267) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the University Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2015
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