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Embers of the Past: Essays in Times of Decolonization
Contributor(s): Frye, David (Translator), Sanjines C., Javier (Author)
ISBN: 0822354764     ISBN-13: 9780822354765
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $25.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: 305.8
LCCN: 2013010156
Series: Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.75 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
 
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Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjin s C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations. He contends that indigenous movements have introduced doubt into the linear course of modernity, reopening the gap between the symbolic and the real. Addressing this rupture, Sanjines argues that scholars must rethink their temporal categories. Toward that end, he engages with recent events in Latin America, particularly in Bolivia, and with Latin American intellectuals, as well as European thinkers disenchanted with modernity. Sanjin s dissects the concepts of the homogeneous nation and linear time, and insists on the need to reclaim the indigenous subjectivities still labeled "premodern" and excluded from the production, distribution, and organization of knowledge.