Mignolo Local Histories/Global Designs

Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
With a New preface by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4506-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. This book is the third of a trilogy that includes The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization and The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. He is also the author of The Idea of Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mignolo, Walter D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System

PART ONE: IN SEARCH OF AN OTHER LOGIC

Border Thinking and the Colonial Difference

PART TWO: I AM WHERE I THINK: THE GEOPOLITICS

OF KNOWLEDGE AND COLONIAL EPISTEMIC DIFFERENCES

Post-Occidental Reason: The Crisis of Occidentalism and the Emergenc(y)e of Border

Thinking

Human Understanding and Local Interests: Occidentalism and the (Latin) American

Argument

Are Subaltern Studies Postmodern or Postcolonial? The Politics and Sensibilities

of Geohistorical Locations

PART THREE: SUBALTERNITY AND THE COLONIAL

DIFFERENCE: LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND KNOWLEDGES

``An Other Tongue'': Linguistics Maps,

Literary Geographies, Cultural Landscapes

Bilanguaging Love: Thinking in between

Languages

Globalization/Mundializacion: Civilizing

Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Knowledges

Afterword An Other Tongue, An Other Thinking,

An Other Logic

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. This book is the third of a trilogy that includes The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization and The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. He is also the author of The Idea of Latin America.