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Cross-Border Indigenous Representation: tense and conflicting paths of "visibility”

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Abstract

As is well known, since the earliest days of contact between the European and indigenous worlds, the indigenous world has been at the end of the 15th century, the object of cultural interest that over the centuries has evolved from an instrumental practice of representation, motivated mainly by political domination, towards various aesthetic modes of representation (literary, cinematographic, etc.) which, supported by multiple translational, rhetorical, and semiotic strategies, have contributed to the construction of a discourse of relative and complex visibility (L. Venuti) of the ingigenous world, precisely as an appropriative and counter-appropriative response not only to the framework of tensions and conflicts (cultural, political, semiotic, etc.) that this first practice of instrumental representation imposed during the early years of the Spanish conquest, but also to those that have survived to this day after the Latin American nation states deepened them in the early 19th century. In this sense, the seminar aims to critically reflect on the various strategies of intersemiotic (orality, alphabetic writing, audiovisuality) and interlinguistic (indigenous language-non-indigenous language) transfer and reformulation (R. Jakobson), both literary and cinematographic, which, within the framework of the tense and conflictive historical trajectory of political-cultural impositions and negotiations, Latin American literary and cinematographic production has used and continues to use to render the indigenous world invisible/visible, whether from the perspective of transcultural (A. Rama) or heterogeneous (Cornejo Polar) non-indigenous perspective, or as a decolonial (Mignolo, Dussel) or alternative (M. Lienhard) response from the indigenous perspective itself.