Sanjines C. Embers of the Past

Essays in Times of Decolonization
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7881-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Latin america otherwise

A leading Latin Americanist exhorts scholars to reclaim the indigenous subjectivities still perceived by many as "not modern" and excluded from the production, distribution, and organization of knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanjines C., Javier

Weitere Mitwirkende

David Frye, Frye

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword / Walter Mignolo xiii

Introduction. Modernity in the Balance, The "Transgressive" Essay, and Decolonization 1

1. The Changing Faces of Historical Time 29

2. Is the Nation an Imagined Community 57

3. "Now Time": Subaltern Pasts and Contested Historicism 97

4. The Dimensions of the Nation and the Displacements of Social Metaphor in Bolivia 143

Notes 183

References 197

Index 209

Über Autor(innen)

Javier Sanjinés C. is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of books including Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia.