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Resumen:
Abstract:
From a border perspective, it is possible to break loose the dominant sphere of the
perceptual, thereby establishing relations, references, and meanings that confer legibility
upon bodies and territories historically located on the outer edge of legality. It is in this
sense, that the decolonial shift is set forth in the chronicles Sangre salada (2011), by
Sebastian Hacher, and De aquí para allá (2016), by Hebe Uhart. It is as a result of the
multiple journeys, trips, and paths taken that a clandestine plot of the marginalized are
illuminated, where the ethnicities, race, and indigenous cultures create a sign, not only of
dispossession and imperial violence but also of communal resistance.
Traveling, naming, founding, populating, these were the pillars of the tradition of
the traveler’s narrative, conquistador/colonizer/civilized (Añón, 2016; Pratt, 1997); this
dynamic is subverted in these chronicles through spatial and symbolic displacements
whose objective is the focalization of ancestral experiences, practices, knowledge, and
cosmovisions, as well as the discovery of hybrids, half-breeds, and the contraband that
have allowed these traditions to survive throughout centuries of policies of dispossession,
concealment, and extermination.
Taking into account these considerations and theoretical approximations, which
examine the contemporary configurations of the critical memory in their testimonial and
communal forms (Hassoun, 1996; Calveiro, 2014; Zubieta, 2017), as well as different
decolonial incursions proposing a deconstruction of the race mechanism around which the
scientific-theological rhetoric of the modernity has been constructed (De Sousa Santos,
2010; Quijano, 2014; Segato, 2015); we shall examine counter-narratives and counter-
mappings, while focusing on the vast communal network through which the immigrant
community and the first peoples diagram their alliances, strategies of complementariness
and reciprocity, that permit the rethinking of taxonomies, the sketchs/partitions and the
hierarchies imposed by the dominant grammars of power.