The Idea of Latin America(English, Hardcover, Mignolo Walter D.)

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The Idea of Latin America(English, Hardcover, Mignolo Walter D.) is written by Mignolo Walter D. and published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1405100850 (ISBN 10) and 9781405100854 (ISBN 13).

The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe. Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day. Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas. Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders. Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.