For a decolonial understanding of the creation of intercultural identities (approaching identity decolonization through writings)

Abstract

This text is ascribed to the research process on the re / de-construction of intercultural identities in the processes of ethno-literary production in the Andean-Amazonian cultural zone. To try to understand these processes I have considered the perspectives offered by the decolonial theory, in an exercise that alternates: 1) the epistemic postures of the deconlonial theory (Wallarstein, Quijano, Lander, Mignolo, Maldonado-Torres, Grosfoguel, Walsh, Quintero, among others, 2) some intuitions about there / construction of identities from these perpectives; and 3) certain keys for a critical interpretive exercise of local ethno-literary production. This, in order to interweave the discourses and put on stage some terms (empty time, intercultural identities, place of enunciation) that, from the ethnographic research, can find or not their senses and contribute in the configuration of this discourse that stresses the contemporary forms of identity construction in Our America.