Moraña's Current Era

In "The Boom of the Subaltern" Mabel Moraña argues that "the current era could be interpreted as the way in which the left that lost the revolution intends to rebuild its agenda, its historical mission, and its lettered centrality, looking to define a new 'otherness' in order to pass -- 'from outside and from above" -- from representation to representativeness" (651). It would seem then that, after the fall of a number of dictatorships, Latin America's lettered left took up a dictatorial position by subjugating the subaltern as a field of study. I wonder though, what is the relation between the lettered left of Latin America and the lettered left of the North. Does the study of subalternity by Latin American academics merely align themselves with the purpose Moraña sees in their Northern counterparts, namely "intellectual exercise  from which one can read...the history of representational hegemony of the North, in its new era of postcolonial re-articulation" (650). Do they lose their sense of Latin Americanism? Perhaps the answer is yes, that even if the academics reside in Latin America, the separate position from which they examine the subaltern echos the actions of the North, and therefore blurs the notion of national boundaries.