Introducción

A few decades after the circulation of Anglo-Saxon post-colonial criticism and the Latin American decolonial turn, the editors of this dossier - gathered at some tables in previous congresses between 2015 and 2017 - ask ourselves: What is colonial in post-colonial studies and in the decolonial turn? In productions of different argumentative tenor we read similar assertions: for postcolonial criticism, the "pos" does not affirm a radical "after" the colony, but rather works as an affirmation under erasure, the prefix as a way of speaking of the brand that the colony imposes on present societies. Certain exponents of the decolonial turn have suggested the need to think about the continuities between colonial order, formation of national states and republican ordinances of the present. However, we consider it necessary to put into discussion that the persistence of the colonial cannot be summarized as a series of unalterable continuities. These continuities have been hidden by the breaking speeches of the Creole elites in the genic moments of the Latin American nation; or suppressed by performative institutions: miscegenation, citizenship, equality, hybridity, republic

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