Embers of the Past (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Times of Decolonization
Übersetzer: David Frye, Frye

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjines C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations. He contends that indigenous movements have introduced doubt into the linear course of modernity, reopening the gap between the symbolic and the real. Addressing this rupture, Sanjines argues that scholars must rethink their temporal categories. Toward that end, he engages with recent events in Latin America, particularly in Bolivia, and with Latin American intellectuals, as well as European thinkers disenchanted with modernity. Sanjines dissects the concepts of the homogeneous nation and linear time, and insists on the need to reclaim the indigenous subjectivities still labeled "e;premodern"e; and excluded from the production, distribution, and organization of knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822378815
• Artikelnr.: 54786751

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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