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DECOLONIZING AMERICAN SPANISH eurocentrism and the limits of foreignness in the imperial... ecosystem.

"Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: HERLIHY-MERA, JEFFREY
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [S.l.] : UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, 2022.
Series:Pitt Illuminations Ser.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: When do we improve upon silence by speaking?
  • Introduction: Colonialism in US Spanish departments
  • After Hispanic studies: On the democratization of Spanish-language cultural study
  • Vetting the decolonial turn
  • Multilingual cognition and ethno-lingual relativity: expanding "Spanish" maps of meaning
  • Spain: the Arabized province of Latin America, or, Which Quijote do we need?
  • On the Puertoricanization of US higher education, or, The awkward constraints of using one language
  • Conclusion: Overcoming the tradition of silence.