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Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador Hardcover - 2014

by Christa J. Olson


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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.

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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 during Ecuador's long process of nation formation, envisioning the nation in speeches, periodicals, and artworks. 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.

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  • Title Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador
  • Author Christa J. Olson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 238
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press
  • Date 2014-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780271061986 / 0271061987
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Hispanic/Latino Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects National characteristics, Ecuadorian -, National characteristics, Ecuadorian -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013040016
  • Dewey Decimal Code 986.605

About the author

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

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University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2014. Hard cover. New in new dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 238 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Halftones, black & white, Maps. Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, 9. Audience: General/trade. hardcover dj, new book! s
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