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Walter D. Mignolo

Walter D. Mignolo

William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Literature
wmignolo@duke.edu
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0413
125B Friedl Building, Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Books

Psicoanalisis y pensamiento decolonial. Surgimiento de Nuevas Fronteras

Book · 2016 Collection of articles in Spanish, some translated. ... Cite

Habitar la frontera. Pensar y sentir la descolonialidad

Book · 2015 A collection of articles from 1999 to 2014 ... Link to item Cite

Desobediencia epistemica

Book · 2014 Translated in several languages (German, French,Swedish, Rumanian and Spanish). ... Cite

Local Histories/Global Designs. Coloniallity, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking

Book · September 2012 With a new preface by the author. ... Cite

Epistemischer Ungehorsam. Rhetorik der Moderne, Logik der Kolonialität und Grammatik der Dekolonialität (German Translation)

Book · 2012 Featured Work Hier wird ein zentraler Autor der lateinamerikanischen Dekolonialismus-Debatte vorgestellt. »Epistemischer Ungehorsam« ist ein umfassendes Projekt, das - wie jeder Ungehorsam - mit einer Infragestellung bestehender Regelsysteme und Begründungszusammenhänge ... Cite

Modernity and Decoloniality

Book · 2012 An annotated bibliography of the research project modernity/coloniality/decoloniality after 13 years of its formation ... Cite

El vuelco de la razón: diferencia colonial y pensamiento fronterizo

Book · 2011 Featured Work In this collection of four articles, the book explores the concept of colonial difference (as well as imperial difference) and argues that it is there where border thinking dwells. Consequently, the decolonial option found its existential and analytic nich ... Cite

De la hermenéutica y la semiosis colonial al pensar descolonial

Book · 2011 Featured Work A collection of five articles, in Spanish, from 1983 to 1995 that are the foundation of my major books since ¨The Darker Side of the Renaissance.¨ An introduction by Gustavo Verdesio explains the trajectory. ... Cite

The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options

Book · 2011 During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas, while building on the idea of Western civilization and modernity as the endpointS of historical time and Europe as the center ... Cite

Desobediencia epistemica: retorica de la modernidad, logica de la colonialidad y gramatica de la descolonialidad

Book · March 2010 Spanish translation of "Delinking: Rhetoric of Modernity, Logic of Coloniality, and Grammar of Decolniality", published in Globalization and the Decolonial Option, Routledge, 2009. German translation by Jens Kessner in process, to be published in Austria. ... Cite

The Idea of Latin America

Book · 2005 Featured Work Cite

The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization, 2nd Edition

Book · October 7, 2003 The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social o ... Full text Cite

Disobedientia Epistemica

Book Translated into Rumanian. ... Link to item Cite