Mestizaje Upside Down : Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia / Javier Sanjines C.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948- author.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Illuminations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Bolivian.

Mestizaje--Bolivia.

Mestizaje.

Nationalism--Bolivia.

Nationalism.

Politics and culture--Bolivia.

Politics and culture.

Bolivia--Intellectual life.

Bolivia.

Bolivia--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004]

Summary:

Mestizaje -the 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. Though it originally carried negative connotations, by the early twentieth century it had come to symbolize a national unity that transcended racial divides.Javier Sanjines C. contends that mestizaje, rather than a merging of equals, represents a fundamentally Western perspective that excludes indigenous ways of viewing the world. In this sophisticated study he reveals how modernity in Bolivia has depended on a perception, forged during the colonial era, that local cultures need to be uplifted. Sanjines 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, Sanjines grounds his argument in an examination of fiction, political essays, journalism, and visual art, offering a unique and masterly overview of Bolivian culture, identity, and politics.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

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 Authenticityof 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

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sanjines C, Javier Mestizaje Upside Down

ISBN:

9780822970811