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Embers of the Past : Essays in Times of Decolonization /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Español |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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?