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'They are always there': Mendieta, Vicuña and the coming again of ghosts
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Juliff, T, 'They are always there': Mendieta, Vicuña and the coming again of ghosts, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, 3, (4) pp. 35-48. ISSN 2576-0947 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1525/lavc.2021.3.4.35
Abstract
To speak of "Latin America" is to seek a frame of negotiation between those for whom it remains a pragmatic grouping, those who regard it as a psychic and geographic zone of experience, and those for whom it serves little other purpose than as a postcolonial mirage. And it’s true, the term is used, critically and otherwise, by a wide range of peoples under its considerable set of semantic groupings of culture, place, and identity. It remains for many, however, a highly contested term that highlights the conflation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. To use it, one must be careful to confront the ghosts that it conjures. It is used here to mark out a framework of precisely that—conjuring ghosts—rather than to circumvent its problematic status.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Latin America, Latinx, decolonisation, feminism |
| Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Research Group: | Art history, theory and criticism |
| Research Field: | Art history |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Arts |
| Objective Field: | The creative arts |
| UTAS Author: | Juliff, T (Dr Toby Juliff) |
| ID Code: | 147044 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Deposited By: | Art |
| Deposited On: | 2021-10-12 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-11-11 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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