latinamericanism

Neither Orientalism nor Occidentalism: Edward W. Said and Latin Americanism

Eduardo Mendieta emendieta@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Stony Brook University (USA) Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz Abstract: The article begins with a discussion of the methodological breakthrough made by Said in his magisterial Orientalism, which it is claimed also informed his subsequent works. He is defended against critics who impute on him with, and impugn him for, […]

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