220039 Cultural and Postcolonial Studies in the Americas: Coloniality, Dependency, and Globalization (S) (SoSe 2010)

In recent years, a vivid and challenging discussion on questions of coloniality, dependency, and globalization has come to the forefront of Latin American Cultural and Postcolonial Studies. The theoretical background is, on the one hand, related to the Latin American theoretical production especially of the 1960s and 1970s (such as Latin American Marxism, development theory, liberation theology) and, on the other hand, influenced by the academic reception of Cultural, Subaltern, and Postcolonial Studies. The aim of this course is to discuss outstanding contributions from post-colonial and cultural studies and to relate them to the theoretical background, on the one side, and to discussions about topics of everyday politics in Latin America, on the other.

Bibliography

Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel und Carlos C. Jauregui (Hg.): Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008