Constitutive Visions

Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

AvChrista J. Olson

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271061993

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Mer om författaren

Christa J. Olson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Recensioner i media

“Constitutive Visions demonstrates, in rich detail, how visual representations serve as rhetorical acts that constitute nations—acts every bit as important as the constitutions, laws, political speeches, and policies that make up a national rhetorical culture. Christa Olson pushes rhetoric scholars to extend their reach beyond the English world and beyond dominant Western traditions, a trend in contemporary scholarship that she models masterfully. This book will become a benchmark for both experienced scholars and novices seeking to examine how national and visual arguments take on rhetorical power across time and space.”—Jordynn Jack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface: The Precarious Politics of Going ThereAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Scene SettingChapter 1: Constituting CitizenshipChapter 2: Geography Is HistoryChapter 3: Burdens of the NationChapter 4: Dead Weight: The Indian as National OtherChapter 5: Performing Strategic IndigeneityConclusion: ¿De Quién Es la Patria? NotesBibliography