Occidental Readings, Decolonial Practices: A Selection on Gender, Genre, and Coloniality in the Americas

This volume seeks to create dialogue on a decolonial inter-American approach with an intersectional gender perspective. Drawing on a legacy of images and discourses of colonization as engendering, this study examines the essays of Argentine author Victoria Ocampo, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's paint [...]
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This volume seeks to create dialogue on a decolonial inter-American approach with an intersectional gender perspective. Drawing on a legacy of images and discourses of colonization as engendering, this study examines the essays of Argentine author Victoria Ocampo, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's painted Diary, and Guatemalan human rights activist Rigoberta Mench 's Testimonio. Against the backdrop of the Occidentalist reception of the three authors' interventions, the analysis focuses on the entanglement of engendering, racialization and coloniality and of "categories of difference," such as race, class, and gender, along with the transnational power dynamics these examples reveal. The study suggests new analyses regarding interactions between different social positions and geopolitical locations, aiming for a transterritorial understanding. Finally, it suggests possible strategies for decolonizing occidental archives, museums, and national frames of analysis.