About

Dr. Abraham I. Acosta is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in 2007 and has since contributed extensively to the fields of contemporary Latin American narrative, critical hybridity, political narratology, subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory. His scholarly work includes the publication of the book 'Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance,' published by Fordham University Press, and numerous chapters and articles that explore themes such as crisis and migration, coloniality, and the politics of language and literacy in Latin America.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation, and Labor at the U.S./Mexico Border

  SUNY Press eBooks · 2022-03-01

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• Postmigrancy:

  State University of New York Press eBooks · 2022-03-01

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• El giro posthegemónico:

  Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. CLACSO eBooks · 2021

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• 3. Secrets Even to Herself: Testimonio, Illiteracy, and the Grammar of Restitution

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020-10-29

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• 4. Silence, Subalternity, the EZLN, and the Egalitarian Contingency

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020

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  • Sociology
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  • Philosophy
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• Thresholds of Illiteracy

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020

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  • Political Science
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• Unsettling coloniality: Readings and interrogations

  2018-03-01 · 1 citations

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• The Posthegemonic Turn

  2017-09-13

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  Over the course of the past twenty years, and with considerable trepidation over the full though as yet largely undetermined political and intellectual implications, critics have begun asserting that Latin America, if not already the planet in its entirety, has entered a posthegemonic age. By posthegemony, therefore, one understands not only this decentering of the nation-state form under conditions of contemporary neoliberalism, but consequently the need to fundamentally rethink current theories of state political power in order to offer a more adequate accounting of its social, political, and cultural effects. A key instance of which can be found, interestingly, in Alberto Moreiras's work on posthegemony, for it provides a very interesting juxtaposition with the framework laid out by Massumi. One should therefore avoid reading the posthegemonic as a simple relation that presupposes any outside or beyond to hegemony, or ideology, or to politics, and/or positionality, without losing what may be its most critical and productive quality for future political thought.

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• Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America by Mariano Siskind

  Revista hispánica moderna/Revista hispanica moderna · 2017-01-01

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  REVIEW OF:Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America, by Mariano Siskind

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• Illiteracy in Latin America

  The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies · 2016-01-28

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  Abstract This entry discusses the concepts of orality and literacy in contemporary Latin American cultural, literary, and philosophical thought: orality serves as the name for indigenous, nonwritten language forms, and literacy as Western, alphabetic, language. The entry addresses the ways in which orality and literacy feature as terms that have come to define Latin American culture, both as a narrative of the originary clash between indigenous and Western civilizations as well as in its modern iteration as cultural politics used by indigenous communities to resist modernization and development. Additionally, it foregrounds key critical and theoretical problems that obtain with orality and literacy that not only complicate their current understanding, but also make possible the development of a more democratic and egalitarian vocabulary to analyze and describe indigenous speech and cultural production.

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Labs

• Abraham Acosta - University of ArizonaPI

Awards & honors

• 2010-11 Woodrow Wilson/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows…