Thurner / Guerrero / Mignolo After Spanish Rule

Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8533-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

The first collection of essays to make a historically grounded, specifically Latin Americanist, intervention in postcolonial studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thurner, Mark

Guerrero, Andrés

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Amin, Shahid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword / Shahid Amin xi

1. Escritura: On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories

Point and Counterpoint / Andrés Guerrero 3

After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After / Mark Thurner 12

Essaying the History of National Images / Maricio Tenorio Trillo 58

2. Poetica: Knowledges, Nations, Histories

Postcolonialism avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 89

"Aquel laberinto de oficinas": Ways of Knowing Empire in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spain / Javier Morillo-Alicea 111

Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation / Mark Thurner 141

Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivia Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro's Carnival / Thomas A. Abercrombie 176

3. Politica: Governmentalities, States, Subjects

Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809–1815 / Marixa Lasso 223

Postcolonialism as Self-Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 1814–1828 / Peter Guardino 248

The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador / Andrés Guerrero 272

Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia / Joanne Rappaport 310

Contributors 347

Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Thurner is Associate Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is the author of From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, also published by Duke University Press.Andrés Guerrero is affiliated with La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), a research institute with branches in all Latin American countries. He is the author of numerous books in Spanish.