Constitutive Visions : Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador /

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In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments-as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity-struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecua...

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Main Author: Olson, Christa J., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [United States] : Made available through hoopla, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rhetoric.
National characteristics, Ecuadorian.
Indians of South America > Social conditions.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Rhetorique > Équateur > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Rhetorique > Équateur > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Indiens d'Amerique > Équateur > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Indiens d'Amerique > Équateur > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Équatoriens > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Équatoriens > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rhetoric > Ecuador > History > 20th century.
Rhetoric > Ecuador > History > 19th century.
Indians of South America > Ecuador > Social conditions > 20th century.
Indians of South America > Ecuador > Social conditions > 19th century.
National characteristics, Ecuadorian > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, Ecuadorian > History > 19th century.
Ecuador.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments-as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity-struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador's large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador's long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador's nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780271062549

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