Constitutive Visions
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Constitutive Visions

Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

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Constitutive Visions

Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Notes to Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Constituting Citizenship
  8. Notes to Chapter 1
  9. Chapter 2: Geography Is History
  10. Notes to Chapter 2
  11. Chapter 3: Burdens Of The Nation
  12. Notes to Chapter 3
  13. Chapter 4: Dead Weight
  14. Notes to Chapter 4
  15. Chapter 5: Performing Strategic Indigeneity
  16. Notes to Chapter 5
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. bibliography
  20. INDEX