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Article: Europe and Latin America: Returning the Gaze.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2001
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Europe and Latin America: Returning the Gaze. By Peter Beardsell. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2000. xv + 233 pp.
Unlike Canada, which sees itself as a piece of Europe in a different part of the world, or the United States of America which views itself as having been created by spontaneous combustion, Latin America, if its philosophers are to be believed, is unable to determine the identity of its parents (was it Cortes or La Malinche, white colonist or black slave?), or, indeed, how many progenitors intervened. In some ways, this book revolves around the same conundrum since it is as much about what Anibal Quijano calls 'the tensile character of Latin ...