ABSTRACT
The publication in recent years of John Beverley's Latinamericanism after 9/11 and Abraham Acosta's Thresholds of Illiteracy places the legacies of the subalternist turn in Latin American postcolonial studies once again at the center of interest. In the wake of the subalternist turn "decolonial option", has installed itself as the ubiquitous mode of postcolonial Latin Americanist thought in recent decades. Setting aside the inconsistencies and limitations inherent to the development of decolonial metaphysics allows the authors to approach the remaining two variants that have also developed as a result of the subalternist turn in postcolonial thinking on and in Latin America since the 1990s. They are Popular Front Variant and Posthegemonic Variant. Posthegemony remains extraneous to the interests of hegemony and of hegemonic thought, thereby challenging the forging of chains of equivalence between subject positions, and always striving to do so without necessarily replacing them with other master narratives.
