COLONIALIDAD, COLONIALISMO Y ESTUDIOS COLONIALES: UN ENFOQUE COMPARATIVO DE INFLEXIÓN SUBALTERNISTA

espanolLa teoria poscolonial y la opcion decolonial estan, desde hace ya unos anos, encontrando cada dia mas adeptos en America Latina. En ambos casos, la idea de lo colonial, la colonialidad y el colonialismo parece tomar diferentes formas. A pesar de esa fluctuacion proteica de los vocablos que tienen como base semantica a la palabra «colonia», su circulacion es significativa tanto en circulos academicos como en el mundo de los movimientos sociales. Sin animo de despreciar este fenomeno, sino mas bien con la intencion de tratar de enriquecer el dialogo entre marcos teoricos con vocacion descolonizadora, voy a proponer, primero, analizar los distintos tipos de colonialismo de los que hablan esas corrientes y, segundo, revisitar criticamente un par de marcos teoricos y practicas academicas que hoy no gozan de la misma acogida que las dos antes mencionadas. Una de ellas es el modo de produccion intelectual que fue hegemonico en los estudios coloniales de los anos ochenta originados en los departamentos de lengua y literatura de las universidades de Estados Unidos, cuyos nombres mas representativos fueron Walter Mignolo y Rolena Adorno. La otra es la propuesta teorica y practica del Latin American Sublatern Studies Group, un colectivo mayormente integrado por estudiosos de la literatura latinoamericana residentes en Estados Unidos (John Beverley, Ileana Rodriguez y otros), cuya relativamente breve vida (aproximadamente una decada) abrio caminos todavia no del todo explorados. Sobre el final, voy a dedicarme a esbozar una propuesta para profundizar las vias de abordaje que proponian esas dos corrientes academicas. EnglishPost-colonial theory and the decolonial option have been getting more and more followers throughout Latin America in the last few years. In both cases, the idea of the colonial, coloniality, and colonialism seems to adopt several ways. Despite that protean fluctuation of utterances, with “colony” as a semantic root, its flowing is significant both in scholarly circles, as in the sphere of social movements. Without wanting to underestimate that phenomenon, but rather intending to try to enrich the dialogue between decolonizingoriented theoretical frameworks, I will put forward, firstly, to analyze the different types of colonialism addressed by those currents, and secondly, to critically revisit a couple of theoretical frameworks and scholarly practices that are not welcomed today like the former ones are. One of them is the way of scholarly production that was hegemonic in colonial studies in the 80s, which originated in the departments of Language and Literature at universities in the United States, whose most representative referents were Walter Mignolo and Rolena Adorno. The other one is the theoretical and pragmatic proposal of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group, a collective for the most part made up by scholars of Latin American literature based in the United States (John Beverley, Ileana Rodriguez, and others), whose relatively short lifespan (about a decade) opened paths not completely explored yet. Toward the end, I will devote some space to outline a proposal to deepen the approaches set forth by those two scholarly currents