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Mestizaje upside-down : aesthetic politics in modern Bolivia

Title
Mestizaje upside-down : aesthetic politics in modern Bolivia / Javier Sanjinés C.
Author
Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948-
Publication
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004.

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x, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Uniform Title
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Modernity from within and without : observing power with both eyes -- Chapter 1. Solving the Indian problem : the genealogy of autochthonous discourse -- Foundational ambiguity -- Racial regeneration and the feigned authenticity of the autochthonous -- The irrationalist construction of the nation -- Franz Tamayo awakens the nation. Chapter 2. Aestheticizing politics : vision, discipline, and allegorical dissent -- Guzmán de Rojas and disciplinary optics -- From the mystical landscape to Cholo dissent -- Arturo Borda and the rhetoric of decay. Chapter 3. Politicizing art, demystifying mestizaje -- Céspedes demystifies Tamayo -- Montenegro on nationalism -- Zavaleta on the skeletal and the carnal. Chapter 4. Indianizing the q'ara : mestizaje turned upside down -- The two katarismos : within, without, against -- Moderate katarismo : the "theory of both eyes" -- Radical katarismo : El Mallku's viscerality -- Displacing mestizaje -- Negativity and subaltern knowledge -- Subalternity's epistemic and political contribution.
Call Number
JGE 04-245
ISBN
0822942275 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003021374
OCLC
53162552
Author
Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948-
Title
Mestizaje upside-down : aesthetic politics in modern Bolivia / Javier Sanjinés C.
Imprint
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004.
Series
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
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