Javier Sanjines C.

Embers of the Past

Essays in Times of Decolonization
Übersetzer: Frye, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Latin America Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354765
• ISBN-10: 0822354764
• Artikelnr.: 36879342

Autorenporträt

Javier Sanjinés C.

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