transculturation

Reviewing Fragments of the Latin American Conceptual “Archive” at the End of the 20th Century

Zulma Palermo palermo@unsa.edu.ar Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina Abstract: The proposal of decolonial thought requires the critical generation of a genealogy detached from colonial power. In this search, the article proposes an excursion through some of the circulating explanatory categories of the Latin American academic discourse at the moment of the emergence of paradigmatic changes […]

Bitter sugar. The Inescapable Oximoron of Cuban History

Graciela Maglia Vercesi gmaglia@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Nicolás Guillén took an autonomous position in the literary field of Hispanic Caribbean in the 30’s, and built an early national hybrid identity as a cultural and aesthetic response to a historic crossroads marked by ethnic whitening, political alienation and economic dependence. Guillén went to the […]

Transculturation and cultural studies. A brief approach to Fernando Ortiz’ thinking

Erelis Marrero León, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba