Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America / / ed. by Mabel Moraña, Bret Gustafson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Vervuert Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Acree, William G.,; Aguiar, Gonzalo,; Arango, Arturo,; Dabove, Juan Pablo,; French, Jan Hoffman,; French, John D.,; Gustafson, Bret,; Ixmatá, Ajpub' Pablo García,; Ixq'anil,,; Maxwell, Judith M.,; Mazzotti, José Antonio,; Mignolo, Walter,; Moraña, Mabel,; Ortiz, Renato,; Sarto, Ana del,; Trigo, Abril,; Walsh, Catherine,; Yúdice, George,
• HerausgeberIn: Gustafson, Bret,; Moraña, Mabel,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: South by Midwest ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

An interdisciplinary tour de force that examines past and present to consider how new forms of knowledge production, epistemic plurality, and intellectual and political movements are bringing sweeping change today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- RETHINKING INTELLECTUALS IN LATIN AMERICA: QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS -- I. Intellectual Roots in Latin America -- INTELLECTUALS AND MESTIZAJE: INCA GARCILASO, BLAS VALERA AND THE ORGANIC FUNCTION OF COLONIAL LETRADOS -- BLACK, FAMOUS, AND OUT OF PLACE: AN ALTERNATIVE INTELLECTUAL IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONTEVIDEO -- TRIUMPH OF THE WILL: ANNIHILATION OF ARIEL IN MANUEL GÁLVEZ'S CALIBÁN -- II. National Cultures and the Challenges of Intellectual Work -- THE PROFESSOR AND THE WORKER: USING BRAZIL TO BETTER UNDERSTAND LATIN AMERICA'S PLURAL LEFT -- COSMOPOLITAN THEORY AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE IN BRAZIL -- POSTSTRUCTURALISM IN THE PERIPHERY: NELLY RICHARD'S INTELLECTUAL TRANSPOSITIONS -- PLATA QUEMADA: BANDITRY, NEOLIBERALISM AND THE DILEMMA OF LITERATURE AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- INTELLECTUALS IN CUBA: FACING A FUTURE THAT IS ALREADY PRESENT -- III. Alternative Epistemologies and Political Agendas -- POLITICAL-EPISTEMIC INSURGENCY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE REFOUNDING OF THE STATE -- MAYA DAYKEEPERS AND THE POLITICS OF SACRED SPACE -- MAYA KNOWLEDGES -- THE COMMUNAL AND THE DECOLONIAL -- IV. Global Networks and Transnational Flows -- SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- ACTIVIST INTELLECTUALS IN A WIRED WORLD -- GLOBAL REALIGNMENTS AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF HISPANISM -- Postscript -- PLURALISM, ARTICULATION, CONTAINMENT: KNOWLEDGE POLITICS ACROSS THE AMERICAS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER