New Geographies of Thought: Black and Indigenous Epistemologies and Literary Production in Spanish America
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue invites critical and creative contributions that explore literary and epistemic production by Black authors in Hispanic South America and the Caribbean. Our aim is to foreground non-hegemonic discourses [including “indigenous perspectives”] that challenge colonial paradigms, racial hierarchies, and Eurocentric models of knowledge within and beyond national literatures.
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches and contributions that examine, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Theorizations from Afro-Latin American studies, decolonial thought, and Indigenous epistemologies
- Literary texts as sites of resistance, memory, and historical reconfiguration
- Intersections between oral traditions, performance, and written literature
- The relationship between Black subjectivity, language politics, and aesthetic innovation in literature
- How diasporic, transatlantic, and hemispheric frameworks reconfigure our understanding of identity and belonging
- Race, ethnicity, and Afro-Indigenous cultural expressions
- Memory, trauma, and post-conflict literary representations
- Popular culture, media, and new technologies
Submission Guidelines:
- An abstract of 250–300 words, along with a short bio (100–150 words).
- Final papers (6,000–8,000 words, including notes and references)
- Chicago Style Manual
- Languages accepted: English
Prof. Dr. M'bare N'Gom
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Afro-Latin American studies
- decolonial thought
- indigenous epistemologies
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