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Of postcolonial critique, replicants and turf wars in Latin American cultural studies

Coloniality at Large is a multifaceted debate on the utility of postcolonial theory and its critical apparatus for Latin America, especially the need to adjust historical perspectives and conceptual categories to acknowledge the particularities of that floating signifier, ‘Latin America’, and its much earlier processes of colonization and decolonization. The editors wish to draw attention to the fact that colonial logic, which went hand in hand with European expansion and capitalist-industrial development, is still alive and well, both as real material process and as unconscious sedimented ideology underpinning political and cultural imaginaries. The book’s ideal reader is the Latin Americanist concerned with the complex relationships between culture, politics and history in the Americas, but non-Latin Americanists can profit from its debates since many of the critical-political conundrums of Latin American studies overlap with concerns in other non-metropolitan societies: which position to take on strong assertions of ethnic and cultural identity within the encompassing nation-state; the increasingly fraught relationship between nation-states and globalization; the global flows of knowledge, including intellectual knowledge; the enduring issues of class, power, exploitation (and their genealogy and particular, localized workings); the relationship between the intellectual and the subaltern for whom the former proposes to speak; and the appropriateness of key terminology: postcolonialism, coloniality, imperialism, capitalism, Marxism, globalization, hegemony, difference, Occidentalism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, subalternity, postmodernism and so forth. The terms and their genealogy and utility should be familiar to postcolonial scholars anywhere. In addition, and more specific to Latin America, Coloniality at Large is a meta-discursive intervention on issues such as the legitimacy of ‘US academic Latin Americanism’, the ‘geopolitics of knowledge’ and the ‘politics of location’. For this reviewer, these issues remain as unresolved as ever.