La opción descolonial en Llanto : novelas imposibles de Carmen Boullosa

Abstract

Carmen Boullosa revises the Aztec emperor’s Moctezuma II character in conjunction with Walter Mignolo’s epistemic approach on decolonization: “the decolonial alternative can only be sustained in diversity and within an external view defined as a critical border-crossing thought”. Llanto: novelas imposibles (1994) prioritizes local histories in the geopolitics of historical knowledge and, incidentally, imposes a decolonization of the Indian imaginary by implanting his words, even if recreated through imagination, from the outside. Boullosa resorts to the polemic Moctezuma to explore a disregarded and subordinated knowledge and to open up a gap in modernity’s epistemic hegemony.