New book by Professor Carlos Jáuregui: Espectros y conjuras. Asedios a la cuestión colonial
Publisher: Editorial Iberoamericana/Vervuert (Frankfurt /Madrid) with
the support of the “Excellence Research Project, Ministry of Economy
and
Competitiveness, Government of Spain (MINECO)” [“Proyecto de
Investigación de Excelencia del Ministerio de Economía y
Competitividad del Gobierno de España (MINECO)”].
This book revisits Derrida's notion of conjure (as exorcism, invocation and conspiracy) to speak of a series of texts that symbolically try to subjugate the “Other” to the order of writing, triggering a sort of return of the repressed (i.e., otherness, violence, horror-- exorcized by the text-- return as textual ruptures and anomalies). Espectros y conjuras includes seven chapters on Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Michael de Carvajal, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Antônio-Vieira, José-de-Anchieta, and others. https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/FichaLibro.aspx?P1=162721