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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795814803321

Autore

Herlihy-Mera Jeffrey

Titolo

Decolonizing American Spanish : Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem / / Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9780822988984

9780822947264

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages)

Collana

Pitt Illuminations Series

Disciplina

306.44261073

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

Eurocentrism - United States

Hispanic Americans - Education

Spanish language - Political aspects - United States

Spanish language - Social aspects - United States

Spanish language - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: When do we improve upon silence by speaking? -- Introduction: Colonialism in US Spanish departments -- After Hispanic studies: On the democratization of Spanish-language cultural study -- Vetting the decolonial turn -- Multilingual cognition and ethno-lingual relativity: expanding "Spanish" maps of meaning -- Spain: the Arabized province of Latin America, or, Which Quijote do we need? -- On the Puertoricanization of US higher education, or, The awkward constraints of using one language -- Conclusion: Overcoming the tradition of silence.

Sommario/riassunto

"Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable racial and gendered results. Decolonizing American



Spanish challenges not only the hegemony of Spain and its colonial pedagogies, but also the characterization of Spanish as a foreign language in the United States. By foregrounding Latin American cultures and local varieties of Spanish and reconceptualizing the foreign as domestic, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera works to create new conceptual maps, revise inherited ones, and institutionalize marginalized and silenced voices and their stories. Considering the University of Puerto Rico as a point of context, this book brings attention to how translingual solidarity and education, a commitment to social transformation, and the engagement of student voices in their own languages can reinvent colonized education"--