The decolonial discourse in "Sangre del trópico" by Alice Lardé de Venturino

Abstract

It is worth wondering if one of the most devastating effects of coloniality in Latin American history has been the all-embracing power of Eurocentrism, which has led Latin American intellectuals, on the one hand, to be more informed than Europeans themselves of the philosophical and literary currents of the world. global north to the detriment of the knowledge of the productions of their own countries and on the other, to ignore or explicitly disdain the productions of other nations of the continent. Borges in "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" somewhat recklessly homologated Argentine writers with Jewish writers since they had the same advantage over Europeans themselves; since both were situated inside and outside the western tradition simultaneously. For Borges, this being and not being at the same time; it gave South Americans a certain advantage over Europeans, condemned to the limitation of their own provincial national conscience; thus, Argentines could innovate within a tradition in which they participated from a peripheral position.