The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves :$bWriting, Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory /$cSara Castro-Klarén.

The book analyzes, from the perspective of the coloniality of power, the cultural and political work of colonial subjects such as el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Guaman Poma de Ayala or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.'Sara Castro Klarén's The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves is a triumph of postcolonial thought. In this superb selection of essays she brilliantly analyzes the work of a set of Latin American writers who produced a pioneering corpus of thought about societies torn by Iberian colonialism and US imperialism.'Fernando Coronil, CUNY'Speaking from the interface of literary studies, intellectual history, political philosophy, and cultural theory, Castro-Klarén intervenes in vital and complex debates with uncommon erudition and elegant arguments that trace a wide critical arc and engage readers from multiple locations.'Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE PART I. WRITING COLONIALITY CHAPTER 1. Guamán Poma: Coevalness and the Space of Purity CHAPTER 2. Guamán Poma: Confession, Pastoral Power, and the Order of the Subject CHAPTER 3. Dancing and the Sacred in the Andes: From the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Ñiti CHAPTER 4. Memory and “Writing” in the Andes: From Cuzco to Valladolid and Back Again CHAPTER 5. Historiography on the Ground: the Toledo Circle and Guamán Poma CHAPTER 6. Writing Subalternity: Guamán Poma and Garcilaso, Inca CHAPTER 7. Garcilaso’s Cuzco: Space and the Place of Knowledge CHAPTER 8. Pedagogies Baroque CHAPTER 9. The Nation in Ruins: Archeology and the Rise of the Nation "visual methodology" "poética arqueológica de la evocación" CHAPTER 10. The Ruins of the Present: Cuzco Evoked Def. archaeo-space PART II. DEBATING POST-COLONIAL THEORY CHAPTER 1. Mimicry Revisited: Latin America, Postcolonial Theory, and the Location of Knowledge CHAPTER 2. Literacy, Conquest and Interpretation: Breaking New Ground on the Records of the Past CHAPTER 3. “Writing with his Thumb in the Air:” Coloniality, Past and Present CHAPTER 4. The Recognition of Convergence: Subaltern Studies in Perspective CHAPTER 5. Inter-rupting the Text of Latin American Literature: Problems of (Mis)Recognition CHAPTER 6. Lima: A Blurred Centrality CHAPTER 7. Posting Letters: Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Post-colonial Debate BIBLIOGRAPHY CREDITS The book analyzes, from the perspective of the coloniality of power, the cultural and political work of colonial subjects such as el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Guamán Poma de Ayala or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz The book analyzes, from the perspective of the coloniality of power, the cultural and political work of colonial subjects such el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Guaman Poma de Ayala or Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.