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Book SynopsisThis posthumously published collection of Fernando Coronil's most important work highlights his deep concern with the global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach.
Trade Review“I highly recommend this Reader, and hope that it can contribute to make the work of Fernando Coronil even better known and appreciated among scholars, hopefully beyond the circles of metropolitan academia too. And I am sure that a translation into Spanish would be very well received among readers in Latin American and Caribbean countries.”
-- Luis Angosto-Ferrández * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *
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The Fernando Coronil Reader is an invaluable addition to the field of Latin American Studies from a myriad of perspectives–e.g. anthropology, history, cultural studies. Coronil’s work challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions.” -- Gianfranco Selgas * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transcultural Paths and Utopian Imaginings / Mariana Coronil, Laurent DuBois, Julie Skurski, and Gary Wilder 1
Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of Anthrohistory
Introduction / David Pedersen 47
1. Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to be Assembled Together 53
2. Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint 69
3. Foreword to
Close Encounters of Empire 118
4. Perspectives on Tierney's Darkness in
El Dorado 123
5. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010) 128
Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American Counterpoint
Introduction / Edward Murphy 165
6. Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela 171
7. Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America 231
8. Venezuela's Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup 250
9. Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo Chávez 262
10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of Chávez 266
Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond Empire
Introduction / Paul Eiss 309
11. Occidentalism 315
12. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories 323
13. Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States 368
14. Smelling Like a Market 385
15. Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 399
16. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the Américas 425
Credits 457
Index 459
