ABSTRACT The turn to Latin American rhetoric has broadly been galvanized by the need for a politics of difference. Critics have drawn from Latinamericanist theories of decoloniality to mobilize epistemological alternatives to Western forms of knowledge production and to critique the representations of alterity in the Western rhetorical tradition, posing variations of a common question: how to proceed from merely tolerating difference in the Western paradigm of rhetoric to actually theorizing rhetoric from the locus of non-Western (that is, non-logocentric) space? In this essay, we analyze the aporia dredged up by Latinamericanist theories of decoloniality as a prism through which to renew and rethink the terms and conditions of comparativist inquiry. We conclude by setting to work on preparing the non-nostalgic grounds for an alterity yet to arrive under the heading of the X.

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散落的痕迹：人类与去殖民化的修辞

摘要 对差异政治的需要广泛激发了对拉丁美洲修辞的转向。批评者从拉丁美洲主义的非殖民化理论中汲取了知识，以动员西方知识生产形式的认识论替代方案，并批评西方修辞传统中他异性的表述，提出了一个共同问题的变体：如何从仅仅容忍西方范式的差异出发。从非西方（即非逻各斯中心）空间的位置实际将修辞理论化？在这篇文章中，我们分析了拉美主义非殖民主义理论所造成的困境，作为一个棱镜，通过它来更新和重新思考比较主义调查的条款和条件。