Traces of Derrida in Latin America

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Published: Dec 31, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.44016
Keywords:
Derrida Deconstruction Deconstruction at large Latin America Postcolonialism Epistemic Decolonization Specters of Marx Identity and Otherness Binary categorization Democracy-to-come Postcolonial Theory Binary opositions Colonialism Caribbean philosophy Hybridity Amazonian thought Neocolonialism Critical theory
Mabel Moraña
Washington University in St. Louis
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Author Biography
Mabel Moraña, Washington University in St. Louis

Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences and Director of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Moraña has authored more than twenty books that have shaped Latin American literary and cultural studies. Her influential works include Arguedas/Vargas Llosa: Debates y Ensamblajes (Singer Kovacks Award, MLA); Bourdieu en la periferia; El monstruo como máquina de guerra; Filosofia y critica en América Latina, Pensar el Cuerpo. and Jacques Derrida, el ex-céntrico. Deconstrucciones. In addition to her authored books, Professor Moraña has edited and co-edited more than thirty volumes, including Liquid Borders: Migration as Resistance and Poetics of Race in Latin America, which bring together innovative scholarship on borders, mobility, and racial dynamics in Latin American contexts.

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