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Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

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Irving And Ticknor In Spain: Some Parallels And Contrasts, Hal L. Ballew Sep 2020

Irving And Ticknor In Spain: Some Parallels And Contrasts, Hal L. Ballew

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Decolonial Resistance In Latinx Writings From Peru To The United States: A Portfolio, Isabel Norwood Jan 2019

Decolonial Resistance In Latinx Writings From Peru To The United States: A Portfolio, Isabel Norwood

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This collection begins with the premise that colonial relationships manifest in ways beyond exploitation of one nation by another. It relies on the decolonial theory of Walter D. Mignolo in its assumption that imbalances of power in the realms of race gender sexuality and class are fundamentally colonial. With this more expansive understanding of coloniality in mind I examine resistance to colonial exploitation in a range of texts from across the Americas. The first essay in this collection explores the role of the guinea pig in Andean food culture arguing that the continued consumption of guinea pig represents a form …