Arturo Arias
Biographic Data
| ID | 413616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arturo Arias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arturo |
| FAMILY NAME | Arias |
| SIGNATURE | ARIAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3965-5285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil Keme
Reviewed by: Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil Keme’ Arturo Arias (bio) Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil Keme’ University of Minnesota Press, 2021 le maya q’atzij/our maya word constitutes a truly original effort to conceptualize contemporary Guatemalan Maya literary production. Keme’ develops a methodological and theoretical foundation to argue that, in the recent a…
From Indigenous Literatures to Native American and Indigenous Theorists: The Makings of a Grassroots Decoloniality
From the coloniality of power to the decolonial swerve, US-centered decolonial academics concur with the foundational points introduced by Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano. Nevertheless, they seldom cite Latin American Indigenous or Native American intellectuals’ decolonial perspectives, or examine specific bodies of critical thinking emerging in hemispheric Indigenous communities. In turn, a diversity of Indigenous paradigms and methods are a…
Reconfigurando Mundos, Combatiendo El Pensamiento Eurocéntrico: Los Desafíos Planteados Por Las Narrativas Indígenas Del Continente
Violence, Indigeneities and Human Rights
Violence from a decolonial perspective would indeed point in the direction, one that makes the indigenous subject unsettled in daily life, to use the terms of Saskia Sassen. She argues that powerless, "invisible" individuals living on the fringes of society are seen by governments as worthless subjects, "without value," localized and perhaps immobile people even if mapped, embodied, and performed. In this logic, indigenous subjectivities are not …
Indigenous Knowledges and Sites of Indigenous Memory
Indigenous Knowledges and Sites of Indigenous Memory ARTURO ARIAS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED Introduction This special issue of Transmodernity emphasizes Indigenous knowledges that may be represented in literary texts, or else be manifestations present in “multi-dimensional sites of indigenous knowledges,” to use Michelle Wibbelsman’s phrase in her article on this same issue, as webs of signification in the symbolic production of heterodox …
What are Central American studies
Victor Montejo as Example of the Emergence of Indigenous Subjectivities
Habrá moros en la costa? La producción cultural centroamericana leída desde España / Would there be Moors on the Coast? Central American Cultural Production as Read from Spain
La literatura centroamericana hizo su aparición en la península española cuando Rubén Darío viajo hacia Madrid en 1892. París y Madrid se convirtieron en las metrópolis culturales de Centroamérica a partir de esa fecha. Sin embargo, su pertenencia a la región no fue reconocida como tal. En España esta producción fue leída desde una perspectiva hispano-céntrica que le fue útil a la península para resolver sus propias contradicciones de legitimació…
New Indigenous Literatures in the Making: A Contribution to Decoloniality
Arias argues that some decolonial theorists and their versions of decoloniality react against diverse theoretical articulations of coloniality and invoke ancestral principles and historic struggles of indigenous peoples to disrupt, transgress, and traverse Western thinking without including, citing, framing, or recognizing indigenous theorists or perspectives at a time when a diversity of paradigms and methods are developing to frame Latin Americ…
Víctor Montejo and the Maya Perspective: Framing New Kinds of Indigenous Autorepresentations
In “Víctor Montejo and the Maya Perspective: Framing New Kinds of Indigenous Autorepresentations,” Arturo Arias returns to Montejo's Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village (1987) to read the text by the Jakaltek Maya author and scholar not as a testimonio but rather as an “autorepresentation.” Arias argues that Indigenous autorepresentations differ from autobiographies or Eurocentric autorepresentations of an individual self and analyzes Montej…
Violence and Coloniality in Latin America
Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization and Viscerality
Scholarship is most often produced within the frameworks of Eurocentric domination. With few exceptions, this factor often implies a neglect of coloniality in most academic fields. From within a Eurocentric perspective, social purviews tend to centre on positive valorizations of idealized forms of democracy. The latter is most often identified with an open society guaranteeing rule of law, order and pluralism, traits not always seen in existing d…
US Central Americans: Representations, agency and communities
Centroamericanidades: Imaginative Reformulation and New Configurations of Central Americanness
The principal question posed in this special issue is: Where is Central America? At a primary level this would appear to be a simple geographical question, even if it were to offer a topology of a qualitatively distinct world
Tradition versus Modernity in Contemporary Yukatekan Maya Novels? YuxtaposingX-Teya, u puksi'ik'al ko'olelandU yóok'otilo'oba ́ak'ab
In this paper I intend to engage in a dialogic relationship with contemporary indigenous literature, while considering the implications of discursivities that placed themselves in liminality between Westernness and Otherness. It is in this sense that I am presently broadening my understanding of these problematics by looking at two novels still produced within the purview of the Maya world, yet located not only in different languages from those s…
Re-visioning Latin American Studies in the United States
In the early 1990s, an influential group of northern scholars, foundation representatives and observers of academic trends came to the conclusion that ‘Area Studies’ were in crisis. Although the critiques and calls for reformulation applied across the board to a heterogeneous array of Area Studies fields, they had particular resonance within Latin American Studies (LAS). Rooted in disciplinary and institutional developments dating back to the beg…
Re-Visioning Latin American Studies: Re-Visioning Latin American Studies
This article explains why-contrary to predications of influential scholars and foundation representatives in the 1990s-Latin American studies (LAS) entered the new century vibrant and growing rapidly. We posit five realms of critique and innovation from within which, in interaction with traditional strengths of area studies, account for this vibrancy. Because these critiques challenge many inherited premises of LAS, they have faced considerable r…
The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation
In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army decimated the Achí Maya villages in the valley of Rabinal because they had opposed the construction of a hydroelectric dam that was going to destroy their homes and their livelihoods. This article uses the villagers’ demands for reparations as a way to explore issues that link ethnic historical memory to a notion that we could label as ‘postmemory’, or, better yet, ‘postmemorializing’, a sort of restitutiona…
Translation nation: Defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States
Translation nation: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States, by Hector Tobar, New York, Toronto, Riverhead Books (Penguin), 2006, xiv + 349 pp., US$15.00/CN$21.00 (pa
Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú
Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú Arturo Arias Abstract This essay is concerned with explaining the ethnic and gender contradictions in Guatemala as represented in two books, I, Rigoberta Menchú and Mulata, that are emblematic of this country’s two Nobel laureates, Miguel Angel Asturias (1967 Nobel Prize for literature) and Rigoberta Menchú (1992 Nobel Peace Prize). The essay argues that both …
The Maya Movement, Postcolonialism And Cultural Agency
On 29 January 2002, various Maya organizations categorically rejected the Anti-Discrimination Law approved the day before by the Guatemalan Congress. They argued that, as it had been approved, this
Personal Stories of Latin Americanism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Personal Stories of Latin Americanism Arturo Arias Arturo Arias Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Arturo Arias; Personal Stories of Latin Americanism. Radical History Review 1 May 2004; 2004 (89): 49–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Central American- Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the US Latino World
After the Rigoberta Menchu Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject
MLN - Volume 117, Number 2, March 2002 (Hispanic Issue)
Authoring Ethnicized Subjects: Rigoberta Menchú and the Performative Production of the Subaltern Self
The debate over Rigoberta Menchú's testimonio has centered on whether or not Menchú told the “truth” regarding details of her personal life. According to her critics, her “lies” discredit her testimony and reduce the moral authority of leftist intellectuals who teach testimonial texts. This focus on verifiable facts ignores the literary value of testimonios in general and the importance of Menchú's testimony in particular in a discursive war tied…
Central American- Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the US Latino World
The Maya Movement, Postcolonialism And Cultural Agency
On 29 January 2002, various Maya organizations categorically rejected the Anti-Discrimination Law approved the day before by the Guatemalan Congress. They argued that, as it had been approved, this
Re-Visioning Latin American Studies: Re-Visioning Latin American Studies
This article explains why-contrary to predications of influential scholars and foundation representatives in the 1990s-Latin American studies (LAS) entered the new century vibrant and growing rapidly. We posit five realms of critique and innovation from within which, in interaction with traditional strengths of area studies, account for this vibrancy. Because these critiques challenge many inherited premises of LAS, they have faced considerable r…
US Central Americans: Representations, agency and communities
Centroamericanidades: Imaginative Reformulation and New Configurations of Central Americanness
The principal question posed in this special issue is: Where is Central America? At a primary level this would appear to be a simple geographical question, even if it were to offer a topology of a qualitatively distinct world
Personal Stories of Latin Americanism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Personal Stories of Latin Americanism Arturo Arias Arturo Arias Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Arturo Arias; Personal Stories of Latin Americanism. Radical History Review 1 May 2004; 2004 (89): 49–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation
In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army decimated the Achí Maya villages in the valley of Rabinal because they had opposed the construction of a hydroelectric dam that was going to destroy their homes and their livelihoods. This article uses the villagers’ demands for reparations as a way to explore issues that link ethnic historical memory to a notion that we could label as ‘postmemory’, or, better yet, ‘postmemorializing’, a sort of restitutiona…
Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540 To 1988
Literary Production and Political Crisis in Central America
This paper examines the common traits of the "new fiction" being written in Central America since the early 1970s. By examining three novels of Roque Dalton, Sergio Ramirez, and Marcos Carias, respectively, it seeks to explore how and why this fiction portrays the societies and political crises of the region in a very original way. This phenomenon will be placed in the context of the political role that Central American writers have played in the…
Teoria literaria y narracion del cambio social
Descolonizando el conocimiento, reformulando la textualidad: Repensando el papel de la narrativa centroamericana
Arturo Arias, Descolonizando el conocimiento, reformulando la textualidad: Repensando el papel de la narrativa centroamericana, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 21, No. 42 (1995), pp. 73-86
Objetos perdidos, dulzuras ignoradas: Sistematizando el imaginario centroamericano
Arturo Arias, Objetos perdidos, dulzuras ignoradas: Sistematizando el imaginario centroamericano, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 25, No. 50, La Trayectoria Intelectual de Antonio Cornejo Polar (1999), pp. 173-185
Authoring Ethnicized Subjects: Rigoberta Menchú and the Performative Production of the Subaltern Self
The debate over Rigoberta Menchú's testimonio has centered on whether or not Menchú told the “truth” regarding details of her personal life. According to her critics, her “lies” discredit her testimony and reduce the moral authority of leftist intellectuals who teach testimonial texts. This focus on verifiable facts ignores the literary value of testimonios in general and the importance of Menchú's testimony in particular in a discursive war tied…
After the Rigoberta Menchu Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject
MLN - Volume 117, Number 2, March 2002 (Hispanic Issue)
Central American- Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the US Latino World
Personal Stories of Latin Americanism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Personal Stories of Latin Americanism Arturo Arias Arturo Arias Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Arturo Arias; Personal Stories of Latin Americanism. Radical History Review 1 May 2004; 2004 (89): 49–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú
Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú Arturo Arias Abstract This essay is concerned with explaining the ethnic and gender contradictions in Guatemala as represented in two books, I, Rigoberta Menchú and Mulata, that are emblematic of this country’s two Nobel laureates, Miguel Angel Asturias (1967 Nobel Prize for literature) and Rigoberta Menchú (1992 Nobel Peace Prize). The essay argues that both …
The Maya Movement, Postcolonialism And Cultural Agency
On 29 January 2002, various Maya organizations categorically rejected the Anti-Discrimination Law approved the day before by the Guatemalan Congress. They argued that, as it had been approved, this
Translation nation: Defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States
Translation nation: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States, by Hector Tobar, New York, Toronto, Riverhead Books (Penguin), 2006, xiv + 349 pp., US$15.00/CN$21.00 (pa
The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation
In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army decimated the Achí Maya villages in the valley of Rabinal because they had opposed the construction of a hydroelectric dam that was going to destroy their homes and their livelihoods. This article uses the villagers’ demands for reparations as a way to explore issues that link ethnic historical memory to a notion that we could label as ‘postmemory’, or, better yet, ‘postmemorializing’, a sort of restitutiona…
Re-visioning Latin American Studies in the United States
In the early 1990s, an influential group of northern scholars, foundation representatives and observers of academic trends came to the conclusion that ‘Area Studies’ were in crisis. Although the critiques and calls for reformulation applied across the board to a heterogeneous array of Area Studies fields, they had particular resonance within Latin American Studies (LAS). Rooted in disciplinary and institutional developments dating back to the beg…
Re-Visioning Latin American Studies: Re-Visioning Latin American Studies
This article explains why-contrary to predications of influential scholars and foundation representatives in the 1990s-Latin American studies (LAS) entered the new century vibrant and growing rapidly. We posit five realms of critique and innovation from within which, in interaction with traditional strengths of area studies, account for this vibrancy. Because these critiques challenge many inherited premises of LAS, they have faced considerable r…
US Central Americans: Representations, agency and communities
Centroamericanidades: Imaginative Reformulation and New Configurations of Central Americanness
The principal question posed in this special issue is: Where is Central America? At a primary level this would appear to be a simple geographical question, even if it were to offer a topology of a qualitatively distinct world
Tradition versus Modernity in Contemporary Yukatekan Maya Novels? YuxtaposingX-Teya, u puksi'ik'al ko'olelandU yóok'otilo'oba ́ak'ab
In this paper I intend to engage in a dialogic relationship with contemporary indigenous literature, while considering the implications of discursivities that placed themselves in liminality between Westernness and Otherness. It is in this sense that I am presently broadening my understanding of these problematics by looking at two novels still produced within the purview of the Maya world, yet located not only in different languages from those s…
Violence and Coloniality in Latin America
Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization and Viscerality
Scholarship is most often produced within the frameworks of Eurocentric domination. With few exceptions, this factor often implies a neglect of coloniality in most academic fields. From within a Eurocentric perspective, social purviews tend to centre on positive valorizations of idealized forms of democracy. The latter is most often identified with an open society guaranteeing rule of law, order and pluralism, traits not always seen in existing d…
New Indigenous Literatures in the Making: A Contribution to Decoloniality
Arias argues that some decolonial theorists and their versions of decoloniality react against diverse theoretical articulations of coloniality and invoke ancestral principles and historic struggles of indigenous peoples to disrupt, transgress, and traverse Western thinking without including, citing, framing, or recognizing indigenous theorists or perspectives at a time when a diversity of paradigms and methods are developing to frame Latin Americ…
Víctor Montejo and the Maya Perspective: Framing New Kinds of Indigenous Autorepresentations
In “Víctor Montejo and the Maya Perspective: Framing New Kinds of Indigenous Autorepresentations,” Arturo Arias returns to Montejo's Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village (1987) to read the text by the Jakaltek Maya author and scholar not as a testimonio but rather as an “autorepresentation.” Arias argues that Indigenous autorepresentations differ from autobiographies or Eurocentric autorepresentations of an individual self and analyzes Montej…
Indigenous Knowledges and Sites of Indigenous Memory
Indigenous Knowledges and Sites of Indigenous Memory ARTURO ARIAS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED Introduction This special issue of Transmodernity emphasizes Indigenous knowledges that may be represented in literary texts, or else be manifestations present in “multi-dimensional sites of indigenous knowledges,” to use Michelle Wibbelsman’s phrase in her article on this same issue, as webs of signification in the symbolic production of heterodox …
What are Central American studies
Victor Montejo as Example of the Emergence of Indigenous Subjectivities
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (16 works) · History (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (10 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works)