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'They are always there': Mendieta, Vicuña and the coming again of ghosts

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Abstract
To speak of “Latin America” is to seek a frame of negotiation between those for whom it remains a pragmatic grouping, those who regard it as a psychic and geographic zone of experience, and those for whom it serves little other purpose than as a postcolonial mirage. And it’s true, the term is used, critically and otherwise, by a wide range of peoples under its considerable set of semantic groupings of culture, place, and identity. It remains for many, however, a highly contested term that highlights the conflation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. To use it, one must be careful to confront the ghosts that it conjures. It is used here to mark out a framework of precisely that—conjuring ghosts—rather than to circumvent its problematic status.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Juliff, T |
Keywords: | Latin America, Latinx, decolonisation, feminism |
Journal or Publication Title: | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
ISSN: | 2576-0947 |
DOI / ID Number: | 10.1525/lavc.2021.3.4.35 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. |
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