Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages)
ISBN:
9780822378815
,
0822378817
Series Statement:
Latin america otherwise
Content:
Introduction: modernity in the balance, the "transgressive" essay, and decolonization ; Modernity in the balance ; The "leftward turn" in our societies ; The conflict over time and the "decolonial turn" ; The essay as a transgressive proposition ; The embers of the past -- The changing faces of historical time ; Tradition and revolution ; The experience of the past, the horizon of expectations, the resource of the "other" -- Is the nation an imagined community? ; Nationalism, nation, and ethnicity ; The nation : a contested concept ; Lettered culture ; The Brazil of Euclides da Cunha ; Mariátegui and the case of Peru ; The persistence of "then' within "now" ; On negativity : "multitude," "subalternity," and "pueblo" -- "Now time" : subaltern pasts and contested historicism ; the hidden face of modernity ; the need to "provincialize" Europe ; The "Time of the now" : messianism and redemption ; The secular and the supernatural ; On complementarity and reciprocity ; The problems of translation ; A "culture of integration" ; By way of conclusion -- The dimensions of the nation and the displacements of social metaphor in Bolivia ; The nation's developmentalist and pedagogical dimension ; The nation's two faces ; Metaphors about "national pedagogy" ; Deterritorialization and metaphors of flowing ; The metaphor of the amphibian ; plurinational state or intractable state?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822354444
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948 - Embers of the past Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2013 ISBN 9780822354765
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822354444
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Nationalstaat
;
Pluralismus
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Postmoderne
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1215/9780822378815
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822378815?locatt=mode:legacy
