Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human.
This article examines the commonalities and divergences between postcolonial and decolonial approaches to humanism and the question of the human, by way of an examination of the work of postcolonial scholar Edward W. Said and decolonial scholar Walter D. Mignolo. While at first glance, their stances...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 73 - 89 |
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