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Historicizing ‘the PostcoloniaT from Nineteenth‐Century Peru
Author(s) -
THURNER MARK
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1996.tb00175.x
Subject(s) - subaltern , latin americans , colonialism , postcolonialism (international relations) , history , historicism , anthropology , sociology , gender studies , ethnology , political science , archaeology , law , politics
This paper deploys an Andean case to suggest that Latin America's nineteenth‐century histories may usefully intervene in contemporary discussions of colonialism and the postcolonial. Such an intervention potentially pluralizes the ‘abstract singularity’ or ‘universal historicism’ of much contemporary postcolonial discourse produced from diasporic‐metropolitan, South Asianist. and Africanist perspectives. The proposed move also brings history, particularly history thought from the predicament or location of subaltern Latin America, to the center of post‐universal discussions that link postcolonialities to subaltern(ist) perspectives.