This Reader (hereafter, LASSR) inventories the exciting variety of work produced by the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group (hereafter, LASSG) over its relatively short life span. The book’s 21 or so chapters are organized in thematic sections devoted, respectively, to theoretical and temporal convergences in South Asian and Latin American critical projects, histories of indigenous peoples and colonialism, the subject positions of intellectuals, questions of governability, and the postcolonial problematics of citizenship, resistance, and disobedience. A final critical essay by Walter Mignolo answers an inviting lead essay delivered by the founding guru of the South Asian Subaltern Studies group, Ranajit Guha. Ileana Rodríguez provides a useful introduction to the project as a whole. The cast of contributors is impressive—something like the subalternist edition of Who’s Who in Latin American cultural studies.
Guha leads off with a renewed call to recover “the small and silenced voice of history—the voice...
