"Counterfoundational Histories from Native Brazil: On Violence and the Aesthetics of Memory" by Tracy Devine Guzmán

Selected Works of Tracy Devine Guzmán

Follow Contact

Contribution to Book

Counterfoundational Histories from Native Brazil: On Violence and the Aesthetics of Memory

Teorizando as literaturas indígenas (2015)

Tracy Devine Guzmán, University of Miami

Download

Abstract

This paper examines the ongoing struggle of Guarani-Kaiowá communities in the context of national and nationalist development imperatives and calls for an urgent rethinking of the current and possible relationships between notions of communal belonging, dominant sovereignty, and "progress."

Keywords

Guarani-Kaiowá; human rights; indigenous rights; indigenous activism; sovereignty

Disciplines

Cultural History,
Latin American History,
Indigenous Studies,
Other American Studies and
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Publication Date

2015

Editor

Emilio del Valle Escalante

Publisher

A Contracorriente

Citation Information

Tracy Devine Guzmán. "Counterfoundational Histories from Native Brazil: On Violence and the Aesthetics of Memory" RaleighTeorizando as literaturas indígenas (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tracydevineguzman/27/