Latin-American Identity and Constructions of Difference

Ed. Amaryll Chanady

Latin American identity is viewed as a hybrid and heterogeneous cultural construction characterized by problems specific to post-colonial societies. Situating itself within the context of the most recent North American and European literary and cultural theories, it points to the lack of attention given to Latin American philosophical discourse by these institutions and the limitations of European narratological categories.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Latin American Imagined Communities and the Postmodern Challenge

Amaryll Chanady

  1. The Antinomies of Latin American Discourse of Identity and Their Fictional Representation

    Fernando Aínsa

  2. Leopoldo Zea’s Project of a Philosophy of Latin American History

    Enrique Dussel

  3. Modernity, Postmodernity, and Novelistic Form in Latin America

    Françoise Perus

  4. Identity and Narratives Fiction in Argentina: The Novels of Abel Posse

    Blanca de Arancibia

  5. The Construction and Deconstruction of Identity in Brazilian Literature

    Zilá Bernd

  6. A Nahuatl Interpretation of the Conquest: From the “Parousia” of the Gods to the “Invasion”

    Enrique Dussel

  7. On Writing Back: Alternative Historiography in La Florida del Inca

    José Rabasa

  8. The Opossum and the Coyote: Ethnic Identity and Ethnohistory in the Sierra Norte de Puebla (Mexico)

    Pierre Beaucage

  9. A Caribbean Social Imaginary: Redoubled Notes on Critical-Fiction against the Gaze of Ulysses

    Iris M. Zavala

Afterword: Pastiche Identity, and Allegory of Allegory

Alberto Moreiras