Mestizaje upside-down : aesthetic politics in modern Bolivia / Javier Sanjinés C.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948-

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mestizaje--Bolivia.

Mestizaje.

Politics and culture.

Race relations.

Intellectual life.

Bolivia--Intellectual life.

Bolivia.

Arts, Bolivian.

Bolivia--Race relations.

Nationalism--Bolivia.

Nationalism.

Politics and culture--Bolivia.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004]

Summary:

Mestizaje -- process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixing of Spanish and indigenous peoples -- has been central to the creation of modern national identity in Bolivia and much of Latin America. Sanjinis traces the rise of mestizaje as a defining feature of Bolivian modernism through the political struggles and upheavals of the twentieth century. He then turns this concept upside-down by revealing how the dominant discussion of mestizaje has been resisted and transformed by indigenous thinkers and activists. Rather than focusing solely on political events, Sanjinis grounds his argument in an examination of fiction, political essays, journalism, and visual art, offering a unique and masterful overview of Bolivian culture, identity, and politics.

Contents:

Introduction: Modernity from within and without : observing power with both eyes

Chapter 1. Solving the Indian problem : the genealogy of autochthonous discourse

Foundational ambiguity

Racial regeneration and the feigned authenticity of the autochthonous

The irrationalist construction of the nation

Franz Tamayo awakens the nation.

Chapter 2. Aestheticizing politics : vision, discipline, and allegorical dissent

Guzmán de Rojas and disciplinary optics

From the mystical landscape to Cholo dissent

Arturo Borda and the rhetoric of decay.

Chapter 3. Politicizing art, demystifying mestizaje

Céspedes demystifies Tamayo

Montenegro on nationalism

Zavaleta on the skeletal and the carnal.

Chapter 4. Indianizing the q'ara : mestizaje turned upside down

The two katarismos : within, without, against

Moderate katarismo : the "theory of both eyes"

Radical katarismo : El Mallku's viscerality

Displacing mestizaje

Negativity and subaltern knowledge

Subalternity's epistemic and political contribution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.

ISBN:

0822942275

OCLC:

53162552