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Author Olson, Christa J., 1978- author.

Title Constitutive visions : indigeneity and commonplaces of national identity in republican Ecuador / Christa J. Olson
Published [United States] : Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
Contents Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: The Precarious Politics of Going There -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Scene Setting -- Chapter 1: Constituting Citizenship -- Chapter 2: Geography Is History -- Chapter 3: Burdens of the Nation -- Chapter 4: Dead Weight -- Chapter 5: Performing Strategic Indigeneity -- Conclusion: ¿De Quién Es la Patria? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index
Summary 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
Subject National characteristics, Ecuadorian -- History -- 19th century
National characteristics, Ecuadorian -- History -- 20th century
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Rhetoric -- Ecuador -- History -- 19th century
Rhetoric -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
National characteristics, Ecuadorian
Rhetoric
Ecuador
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271063621
0271063629