Constitutive visions : indigeneity and commonplaces of national identity in republican Ecuador /

Constitutive visions : indigeneity and commonplaces of national identity in republican Ecuador /

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Author / Creator:	Olson, Christa J., 1978- author.
Imprint:	[United States] : Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Rhetoric and democratic deliberation Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
Subject:	National characteristics, Ecuadorian -- History -- 19th century. National characteristics, Ecuadorian -- History -- 20th century. Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Rhetoric -- Ecuador -- History -- 19th century. Rhetoric -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century. Indians of South America -- Social conditions. National characteristics, Ecuadorian. Rhetoric. Ecuador. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11676634

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ISBN:	9780271063621 0271063629
Summary:	In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments-as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity-struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador's large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador's long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador's nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.
Other form:	Print version: Olson, Christa J. Constitutive Visions : Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador. University Park : Penn State University Press, ©2015 9780271061986
Publisher's no.:	MWT11634079

Table of Contents:

Intro
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: The Precarious Politics of Going There
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Scene Setting
Chapter 1: Constituting Citizenship
Chapter 2: Geography Is History
Chapter 3: Burdens of the Nation
Chapter 4: Dead Weight
Chapter 5: Performing Strategic Indigeneity
Conclusion: ¿De Quién Es la Patria?
Notes
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index