Embers of the past : essays in times of decolonization
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Embers of the past : essays in times of decolonization
(Latin America otherwise)
Duke University Press, 2013
- : pbk
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Rescoldos del pasado : conflictos sociales en sociedades poscoloniales
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"The manuscript was first published in Bolivia by Proyecto de Investigacion Estrategica (PIEB) with the title Rescoldos del pasado: conflictos sociales en sociedades poscoloniales (2009)"--Acknowledgments
Bibliographical references: p. [197]-207
Includes index
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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 "premodern" and excluded from the production, distribution, and organization of knowledge.
Table of Contents
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
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