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Embers of the Past: Essays in Times of Decolonization by David Frye

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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.

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.

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Javier Sanjines 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.



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"Embers of the Past is a major statement on nation-building and nation deconstruction. Arguing that the construction of nations on the bases of modernity and linear history facilitated the rise of Europeans and the decline of Latin American communities, Javier Sanjines C. unravels not only those concepts but also others including Eurocentrism, capitalism, multitude, indio, criollo, leterado, and iletrado. He calls for the disarticulation of Western thinking and metaphors, the debunking of 'universalism' and 'progress.'"-Ileana Rodriguez, author of Liberalism at Its Limits: Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text
"In Embers of the Past, Javier C. Sanjines takes as his point of departure the problems of modernity and Western models of development in present-day Bolivia. Yet this fascinating book can be usefully applied in any society with a significant subalternized or racialized population. Sanjines reveals ethnicity as a complex process of reworking and reinventing culture, a process that relates the present with the ancestral past in more composite ways than one would have imagined."-Arturo Arias, author of Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America
"There is a careful logic to how the four pieces fit together.... Throughout Embers of the Past, Sanjines provides a study on the permanence of the past into the present, meditating on the need to shift the locus of enunciation from which we speak when we encounter, think about, and ultimately struggle against coloniality." -- Eugenia Demuro * Postcolonial Studies *
"[T]here is much depth of knowledge and insight in Sanjines's sparkling literary history of Bolivia (and Latin America).... When read along with Sanjines's first major English-language book... this striking set of essays opens new windows onto Bolivia's variegated cultural and literary landscapes." -- Brooke Larson * Canadian Journal of History *



Book Information
ISBN 9780822354765
Author David Frye
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 354g

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