Latinamericanism on decay: a reading of its critique and its crisis

Abstract

This essay presents a discussion about the different perspectives of Latinamericanism: the metropolitan and the vernacular, which have shaped it as a subject to study. We consider an alternative named “latinamericanism on decay” that explains the invalidity of the latinamericanist conciliatory and homogeneous discourse; for that purpose, we read critically the work of four contemporary essayists: Julio Ramos, Josefina Ludmer, Silviano Santiago y Nelly Richard, in order to show their works as elaborations of the fragmentary discourse that exhibits the crisis of latinamericanist discourses.