Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. She is author of From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan Caribbean Context. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA. He is author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature and The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives. Marisa Belausteguigoitia is Professor of Gender/Cultural Studies and Education at the School of Humanities at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). She is author with María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo of Des/posesión: Género y territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación.

Introduction: The Latin American Keywords Project: A Critical Disciplinary Genealogy; Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, and Marisa Belausteguigoitia.- 1. Indigenism, Zapatismo and Indigeneidad: Listening to the Space of Silence; Marisa Belausteguigoitia.- 2. Indigenismo as Nationalism, From the Liberal to the Revolutionary Era; María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.- 3. Americanism/o: Intercultural Border Zones in Post-social Times; Juan Poblete.- 4. Americanism/o and the Internalization of U.S. Imperialism: A Response to Juan Poblete; John Carlos Rowe.- 5. Colonialism, Postcolonial, Neocolonial, Internal Colonialism, Coloniality and Decoloniality; Nelson Maldonado Torres.- 6. Mapping Colonial Resistance: Colonialism, Anti- '' ''Indianism, '' '' and Nationalism in the Americas; Leece Lee-Oliver.- 7. Criollismo, Creole and Créolité; José Antonio Mazzotti.- 8. Creole, Criollismo and Créolité; H. Adlai Murdoch.- 9. Race and the Constitutive Inequality of the Modern/Colonial Condition; José Buscaglia-Salgado.- 10. The Asian Presence in Mestizo Nations: A Response; Kathleen López.- 11. Transculturation, Syncretism, and Hibridity; Jossianna Arroyo.- 12. The Persistence of Racism in Critical Imaginaries on Latin America; Laura Catelli.- 13. Modernity and Modernization: the Geopolitical Relocation of Latin America; Graciela Montaldo.- 14. Beyond Modernity; Alejandra Laera.- 15. The Latin America Nation and its Cultural Inscriptions: Archives of Promise or Lament?; Román de la Campa.- 16. Multiplicity and its Discontents: A Response to Román de la Campa; Héctor Hoyos.- 17. Gender/Género in Latin America; Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.- 18. Gender Travels South: Response to Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes; Montserrat Sagot.- 19. Queer/Sexualities; Licia Fiol Matta.- 20. Queer Articulations; Carlos Figari.- 21. Testimonio: The Witness, the Truth and the Inaudible; Ana Forcinito.- 22. Enunciating Alleged Truths: A Response to Ana Forcinito; Arturo Arias.- 23. Lo popular/ Popular Culture: Performing the Borders of Power and Resistance; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.- 24. Globalized Digital Popular Cultures: A Response to Ignacio Sánchez Prado; Susan Antebi.