Inverting the Gaze from California

Abstract

The epilogue contemplates writing this book from Luiseño land, specifically focusing on a park created in Oceanside, California, the ancestral lands of the San Luis Rey Band of Indians. The epilogue highlights the endurance of oral literature as well as writing throughout indigenous territory. It meditates on Mesoamerican literature as a new sign of Latin America’s transition from officially Spanish-speaking and mestizo to recognizing and affirming its multilingual and intercultural distinction.