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Embers of the Past : Essays in Times of Decolonization
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanjinés C., Javier.
- Series:
- Latin america otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural pluralism.
- Ethnic relations.
- Multiculturalism.
- Postcolonialism.
- Local Subjects:
- Cultural pluralism.
- Ethnic relations.
- Multiculturalism.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; About the Series; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Walter D. Mignolo; Introduction: Modernity in the Balance, The ""Transgressive"" Essay, and Decolonization; Chapter One. The Changing Faces of Historical Time; Chapter Two. Is the Nation an Imagined Community?; Chapter Three. ""Now Time"": Subaltern Pasts and Contested Historicism; Chapter Four. The Dimensions of the Nation and the Displacements of Social Metaphor in Bolivia; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822378815
- 0822378817
- OCLC:
- 1202624888
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