Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging Indigenous and Hispanic studies through trans-Indigenous reading methods, intercultural dialogues, and reflections on translation and epistemology. Each chapter brings rich context that bears on some aspect of the Indigenous Americas and its crossroads with Hispanic studies, from Canada to Chile. Such a hemispheric and interdisciplinary approach offers innovative and significant means of challenging the coloniality of Hispanic studies.
With contributions from Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Mikeas Sánchez and Violeta Percia, Marco Antonio Huerta Alardín, Manuel Carrión-Lira and Antonio Catrileo, Pedro Favaron, Nathan C. Henne, Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar, Víctor Quiroz Ciriaco, Estelle Tarica, and Ana Lucía Tello, Oswaldo A. Lara Orozco, Rita M. Palacios, Juan A. Castillo Cocom, and Paul M. Worley, Fredy A. Roncalla, Sue Patricia Haglund, Carolina Bloem and James Courage Singer, Sean Sell, Paulina Pineda, Sue Meneses Eternod, Miguel Rocha Vivas, Joseph M. Pierce
“A timely intervention that has the potential to profoundly alter and decolonize the way Hispanic studies, Native studies, and Latinx studies are currently conceptualized and practiced. Envisioned as a bilingual text (with all chapters available to readers in English and Spanish), Abiayalan Pluriverses bridges a language divide that has itself been an expression of coloniality and has long made it difficult for non-Spanish readers to familiarize themselves with the rich insights offered by Indigenous and other authors publishing in Spanish.”
—Freya Schiwy, University of California, Riverside
Gloria E. Chacón is an associate professor of literature at UC San Diego.
Juan G. Sánchez Martínez is an associate professor of Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University.
Lauren Beck is a professor of Hispanic studies and visual and material culture at Mount Allison University.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We acknowledge the important work of Indigenous intellectuals and other cultural practitioners as well as non-Indigenous scholars who contribute to making our world better for others.
We would like to thank each of the authors of this volume for responding to our call and for dedicating their writing and teaching to bridge between cultures and disciplines. Also, we are grateful for their patience and openness to accept and reflect on our comments and suggestions as well as the reviewers’. This book would not exist without your commitment to this collective project!
We would like to acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.
The cover of our book, “The encounter between the Eagle and the Condor” by gunadule artist Achu Kantule (Osvaldo De León) is an old piece from his personal collection. We want to acknowledge his vision as well as his generosity to share it with our project. That encounter is also a bridge.
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