Beyond Renewal?: Latin America, the “Classics,” and the Interesting Spaces between Martí and Chakrabarty

• Marc A. Hertzman ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Illinois
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 12, Nº. 2, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Invierno 2015), págs. 42-73
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Drawing on my experience teaching in one of the last required Core Curricula in the United States, recent literature on indigenous people and indigeneity, and a remarkable text published in Brazil in 1937, this article considers the challenges and possibilities that arise when the European-U.S. canon is read and taught from a Latin American perspective. I place my findings in conversation with José Martí's anti-colonial perspective and Dipesh Chakrabarty's critique of postcolonial, both of whom, I argue, provide compelling but ultimately incomplete frameworks for a truly critical Latin Americanist reading of the canon and higher education in the U.S.