Abstract
Beard looks at the recognition of sovereignty—political, rhetorical, literary—that is at the core of many key critical works in Indigenous studies in contrast with decolonial theories that still focus on colonial powers and asks what would Latin American literary studies be if we followed the path of the North American Indigenous literary separatists who prioritize sovereignty and the intellectual histories, experiences, and knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples in their readings of Indigenous literary texts.
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Beard, L.J. (2016). Decolonization and Indigenous Sovereignty: Coming to Terms with Theories in the Americas. In: Ramos, J., Daly, T. (eds) Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93358-7_11
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