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C. Javier Sanjines C. Sanjines ,
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Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjines 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. Sanjines 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.

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Duke University Press

Date de parution

11 septembre 2013

EAN13

9780822378815

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English

EMBERS OF THE PAST

AbookintheseriesLatinAmericaOtherwise:Languages,Empires,Nations

SERIES EDITORS Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University Irene Silverblatt, Duke University Sonia Saldívar-Hull, University of Texas, San Antonio

EMBERS OF THE PAST EssaysinTimesofDecolonization

JAVIER SANJINÉS C.

WITH A FOREWORD BY WALTER D. MIGNOLO

Duke University Press

Durham and London 2013

Translated by David Frye

∫2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Dante and Trade Gothic by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948– [Rescoldos del pasado. English] Embers of the past : essays in times of decolonization / Javier Sanjinés C. ; translated by David Frye ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo. pages cm. — (Latin america otherwise) isbn978-0-8223-5444-4 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn978-0-8223-5476-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Multiculturalism. 2. Cultural pluralism. 3. Ethnic relations. 4. Postcolonialism.i. Title.ii. Series: Latin America otherwise. hm1271.s36613 2013 305.8—dc23 2013010156

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the O≈ce of the Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, which provided funds toward the publication of the book.

IN MEMORY OF FERNANDO CORONIL (1943–2011)

about the seriesix acknowledgmentsxi foreword by walter d. mignolo

xiii

introduction MODERNITY IN THE BALANCE, THE ‘‘TRANSGRESSIVE’’ ESSAY, AND DECOLONIZATION1

ModernityintheBalance2 The‘‘LeftwardTurn’’inOurSocieties6 TheConﬂictoverTimeandthe‘‘DecolonialTurn’’ TheEssayasaTransgressiveProposition15 TheaPetsbeEmorsthf24

one THE CHANGING FACES OF HISTORICAL TIME29

TraditionandRevolution36 TheExperienceofthePast38 TheHorizonofExpectations42 TheesRrcou’’htre‘O‘tehefo46

two IS THE NATION AN IMAGINED COMMUNITY?57

Nationalism,Nation,andEthnicity59 TheNation:AContestedConcept62 LetteredCulture66

Contents

TheBrazilofEuclidesdaCunha69 MariáteguiandtheCaseofPeru74 ThePersistenceof‘‘Then’’within‘‘Now’’81 OnNegativity:‘‘Multitude,’’‘‘Subalternity,’’and‘‘Pueblo’’

three ‘‘NOW TIME’’: SUBALTERN PASTS AND CONTESTED HISTORICISM97 TheHiddenFaceofModernity98 TheNeedto‘‘Provincialize’’Europe103 The‘‘TimeoftheNow’’:MessianismandRedemption107 ThealrnadeSucatrnalurethpeSu113 OnComplementarityandReciprocity118 TheProblemsofTranslation127 A‘‘CultureofIntegration’’133 ByWayofConclusion138

four THE DIMENSIONS OF THE NATION AND THE DISPLACEMENTS OF SOCIAL METAPHOR IN BOLIVIA143 TheNation’sDevelopmentalistandPedagogicalDimension TheNation’sTwoFaces146 Metaphorsabout‘‘NationalPedagogy’’149 DeterritorializationandMetaphorsofFlowing158 TheMetaphoroftheAmphibian168 PlurinationalStateorIntractableState?172

notes183

references197

index209

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AbouttheSeries

LatinAmericaOtherwise:Languages,Empires,Nationsis a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to deﬁne ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad inter-play of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a starting point to redeﬁne Latin America as a conﬁguration of political, linguistic, cultural, and economic intersections that demands a contin-uous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history and of the ongoing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America’s experience.Latsewi:acOhtreniAemir Languages,Empires,Nationsa forum that confronts established geo- is cultural constructions, rethinks area studies and disciplinary boundaries, assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and correspond-ingly demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny.

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