Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints

September 17, 2023 (last updated on November 17, 2023)
Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints book cover

Edited by Stephan Palmié, Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints is a cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar.

Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969) coined the term “transculturation” in 1940. This was an early case of theory from the South: concepts developed from an explicitly peripheral epistemological vantage point and launched as a corrective to European and North American theoretical formulations. What Ortiz proposed was a contrapuntal vision of complexly entangled processes that we, today, would conceptualize as cultural emergence.

LINK TO BOOK: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo165271933.html