{"product_id":"the-fernando-coronil-reader-9781478003960","title":"The Fernando Coronil Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Luis Angosto-Ferrández * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Fernando Coronil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Transcultural Paths and Utopian Imaginings \/ Mariana Coronil, Laurent DuBois, Julie Skurski, and Gary Wilder  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of Anthrohistory\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ David Pedersen  47\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to be Assembled Together  53\u003cbr\u003e 2. Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint  69\u003cbr\u003e 3. Foreword to \u003ci\u003eClose Encounters of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e  118\u003cbr\u003e 4. Perspectives on Tierney's Darkness in \u003ci\u003eEl Dorado\u003c\/i\u003e  123\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010)  128\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American Counterpoint\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Edward Murphy  165\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela  171\u003cbr\u003e 7. Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America  231\u003cbr\u003e 8. Venezuela's Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup  250\u003cbr\u003e 9. Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo Chávez  262\u003cbr\u003e 10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of Chávez  266\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond Empire\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Paul Eiss  309\u003cbr\u003e 11. Occidentalism  315\u003cbr\u003e 12. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories  323\u003cbr\u003e 13. Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States  368\u003cbr\u003e 14. Smelling Like a Market  385\u003cbr\u003e 15. Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization  399\u003cbr\u003e 16. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the Américas  425\u003cbr\u003e Credits  457\u003cbr\u003e Index  459","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408974979415,"sku":"9781478003960","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478003960.jpg?v=1730504929","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fernando-coronil-reader-9781478003960","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}