ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the effect and subsequently to outline a post Michel Foucault hermeneutics of history and especially of a history of literary culture. In a number of ways, the literary history of Latin America is a history of pluralities joined together under the perennially contested designation of "Latin America". The chapter approaches Latin American literary history through specific complementary voices of the conquered and the conquerors that permit the building of a Latin American perspective on literary culture that hopes to resist localisms and regionalisms. It narrates the history of cultural encounters: these are tales of syncretism, hybridity, and adaptation. The chapter focuses on the specificities of the phenomenon of transcultura-tion as it pertains to the special cases within Latin America. It self-reflexive also focuses on our century as the temporal moment from which the entire history is being configured and narrated.
