The texts gathered here are based on a critique of traditional concepts of the cultural and symbolic practices such as multiculturalism, syncretism and cultural miscegenation. From a broad comparative perspective to cross-disciplinary, considering the progress of the debate on the various theoretical concepts and methodologies currently used in the analysis of processes and cultural systems, and take into account the respective notions in philosophy, criticism literary and cultural studies._x000D_
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This, then, to enroll in the Latin American cultural theory and theorizing space (dis-) territorial beyond the subcontinent and that considers the current cultural processes in the fourth phase of accelerated globalization. Thus, we wanted to start a dialogue between different academic traditions so far only in cases connected (and thinkers) isolated at the same time illuminates the possibilities of a specifically Latin American postcolonialism that considers the similarities but also differences between the post-colonial societies former British Empire and the Spanish and Portuguese colonization in Latin America._x000D_
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In this context, not only discussed the theoretical notions of Latin American cultural criticism and post-colonialism and its possible application to the situation of States and postcolonial cultures in Latin America, but also discusses specific bullrings in which the notions in question can be applied to the analysis of political and cultural processes._x000D_
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Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle