A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Radical remembrance
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Tag: Decolonial
Colonisation of the decolonial
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Art is a way of confronting institutional obstacles to decolonisation. Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America’s future, past and present, edited by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, María Iñigo Clavo, Beatriz Lemos and Florencia Portocarrero, 2026, UCL Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, North America, South America
Invisible encounter
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A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Review: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Andrea Mendoza, 2026, Duke University Press
Mayan lessons for the world
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A groundbreaking history of the Maya unifies a hitherto fragmented narrative. The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya, David Stuart, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Central America
Asymmetric wordfare
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Iran’s ties with Latin America have been distorted by US and Israeli narrative terrorism. We review titles about the Islamic Republic’s engagement with other targets of imperialism
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Middle East & North Africa, South America, United States, Venezuela
Extraction as alienation
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The rape of the Amazon has generated a unique cultural archive. The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts, edited by Patricia Vieira, 2025, University of Florida Press
Categories: Brazil, Ecuador, South America
Knowledge is power
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Imperialism aims to erase indigenous wisdom. Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas, Joshua M Price, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Anti-art with attitude
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Central American artists are defying their colonial invisibility. Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America, Kency Cornejo, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, United States