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BL
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660220
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Rescoldos del pasado.English
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Sanjinés C., Javier,1948-
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Embers of the past : : essays in times of decolonization /\ Javier Sanjinés C. ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo ; translated by David Frye
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| Series Statement
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Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations
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xxi, 219 pages ;; 25 cm
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9780822354444 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0822354446 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780822354765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0822354764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: modernity in the balance, the "transgressive" essay, and decolonization ; Modernity in the balance ; The "leftward turn" in our societies ; The conflict over time and the "decolonial turn" ; The essay as a transgressive proposition ; The embers of the past -- The changing faces of historical time ; Tradition and revolution ; The experience of the past, the horizon of expectations, the resource of the "other" -- Is the nation an imagined community? ; Nationalism, nation, and ethnicity ; The nation : a contested concept ; Lettered culture ; The Brazil of Euclides da Cunha ; Mariátegui and the case of Peru ; The persistence of "then' within "now" ; On negativity : "multitude," "subalternity," and "pueblo" -- "Now time" : subaltern pasts and contested historicism ; the hidden face of modernity ; the need to "provincialize" Europe ; The "Time of the now" : messianism and redemption ; The secular and the supernatural ; On complementarity and reciprocity ; The problems of translation ; A "culture of integration" ; By way of conclusion -- The dimensions of the nation and the displacements of social metaphor in Bolivia ; The nation's developmentalist and pedagogical dimension ; The nation's two faces ; Metaphors about "national pedagogy" ; Deterritorialization and metaphors of flowing ; The metaphor of the amphibian ; plurinational state or intractable state?
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Multiculturalism
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Cultural pluralism
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Ethnic relations
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Postcolonialism
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305.8
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HM1271.S36613 2013
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