Beschreibung:
Javier Sanjinés C. is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of books including Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia.
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.
About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiForeword / Walter Mignolo xiiiIntroduction. Modernity in the Balance, The "Transgressive" Essay, and Decolonization 11. The Changing Faces of Historical Time 292. Is the Nation an Imagined Community 573. "Now Time": Subaltern Pasts and Contested Historicism 974. The Dimensions of the Nation and the Displacements of Social Metaphor in Bolivia 143Notes 183References 197Index 209