After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments Of The Americas (latin America Otherwise)

The first collection of essays to make a historically grounded, specifically Latin Americanist, intervention in postcolonial studies. Annotation Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing. Challenging the universalizing tendencies of postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countrieswith their creole elites, hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated historical relationships with Spain and the United Statesdiffer from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and postcolonial histories around the world. Contributors Thomas Abercrombie Shahid Amin Jorge Caizares-Esguerra Peter Guardino Andrs Guerrero Marixa Lasso Javier Morillo-Alicea Joanne Rappaport Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Mark Thurner Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing. Challenging the universalizing tendencies of postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countries—with their creole elites, hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated historical relationships with Spain and the United States—differ from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and postcolonial histories around the world. Contributors Thomas Abercrombie Shahid Amin Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Peter Guardino Andrés Guerrero Marixa Lasso Javier Morillo-Alicea Joanne Rappaport Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Mark Thurner Point And Counterpoint / Andrés Guerrero -- After Spanish Rule : Writing Another After / Mark Thurner -- Essaying The History Of National Images / Mauricio Tenorio-trillo -- Post-colonialism Avante L'lettre? : Travelers And Clerics In Eighteenth-century Colonial Spanish America / Jorge Caizares-esguerra -- 'aquel Laberinto De Oficinas' : Ways Of Knowing Empire In Late Nineteenth-century Spain / Javier Morillo-alicea -- Peruvian Genealogies Of History And Nation / Mark Thurner -- Mothers And Mistresses Of The Urban Bolivian Public Sphere : Postcolonial Predicament And National Imaginary In Oruro's Carnival / Thomas Abercrombie -- Revisiting Independence Day : Afro-colombian Politics And Creole Patriot Narratives, 1809-1815 / Marixa Lasso -- Postcolonialism As Self-fulfilled Prophecy : Electoral Politics In Oaxaca, 1814-1828 / Peter Guardino -- The Administration Of Dominated Populations Under A Regime Of 'customary' Citizenship : The Case Of Postcolonial Ecuador / Andrés Guerrero -- Redrawing The Nation : Indigenous Intellectuals And Ethnic Pluralism In Contemporary Colombia / Joanne Rappaport. Edited By Mark Thurner And Andrés Guerrero. Foreward By Shahid Amin. -- Cover. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Presents a collection of essays that engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. This title includes essays that revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia. In his foreword to this volume Shahid Amin makes a suggestive reading of the problem of the lack of communication among the localities of "the South."