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Decolonizing American Spanish : Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem
Title
Decolonizing American Spanish : Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem / Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera.
ISBN
9780822988984
9780822947264
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
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Summary
"Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable racial and gendered results. Decolonizing American Spanish challenges not only the hegemony of Spain and its colonial pedagogies, but also the characterization of Spanish as a foreign language in the United States. By foregrounding Latin American cultures and local varieties of Spanish and reconceptualizing the foreign as domestic, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera works to create new conceptual maps, revise inherited ones, and institutionalize marginalized and silenced voices and their stories. Considering the University of Puerto Rico as a point of context, this book brings attention to how translingual solidarity and education, a commitment to social transformation, and the engagement of student voices in their own languages can reinvent colonized education"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas
Contents
Preface: When do we improve upon silence by speaking?
Introduction: Colonialism in US Spanish departments
After Hispanic studies: On the democratization of Spanish-language cultural study
Vetting the decolonial turn
Multilingual cognition and ethno-lingual relativity: expanding "Spanish" maps of meaning
Spain: the Arabized province of Latin America, or, Which Quijote do we need?
On the Puertoricanization of US higher education, or, The awkward constraints of using one language
Conclusion: Overcoming the tradition of silence.
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