Translational Resistance and Southern Cone Memory: Re‑Reading Anglophone Postcolonial Theory from the Margins of Montevideo
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https://doi.org/10.24113/tjtthy56Keywords:
Southern Cone Literature, Translational Resistance, Uruguayan Memory Politics, Anglophone Postcolonial Theory, Subaltern Agency, Testimonial Narratives, Counter Archive Formation, Comparative World Literature, Dictatorship and Trauma, Rioplatense Cultural StudiesAbstract
This study investigates the intersections between Anglophone postcolonial literary theory and the memory politics of the Southern Cone, with a focus on post‑dictatorship Uruguayan cultural studies. Positioned within the University of the Republic (UDELAR), the paper argues that applying Anglophone postcolonial frameworks (Spivak, Bhabha, Said) to Southern Cone texts requires a process of translational resistance. Rather than adopting Western paradigms as universal templates, Uruguayan scholars must re‑contextualize subaltern agency, state trauma, and testimony through the historical conditions of dictatorial censorship and democratic transition in the Río de la Plata region. Through bilingual narrative strategies, testimonial fragments, and spatial representations of marginality, this paper establishes a localized theoretical framework for reading Southern Cone resistance literature within global English literary studies.
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