Coloniality: Observations on the Construction of Discourses

Abstract

The colonial relationship generated a stratified sphere of the imaginaries. Thus arose illustrated, popular (rural and urban), indigenous and, then, media literary systems. The “order of discourse” was Western, but cultures that inherited colonization processes generated flows that put into tension the internal relations between the cultures involved. Contemporary discourses show, on the one hand, a flow that leads the popular to the illustrated system. Furthermore, they show a plurality of junctions that leads us to propose a perspective on amplitude, rhizomatic, close to the creolization conceived by Édouard Glissant.