Embers of the Past: Essays in Times of Decolonization

by Javier Sanjines C.

Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjinés C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations. He contends that indigenous movements have introduced doubt into the linear course of modernity, reopening the gap between the symbolic and the real. Addressing this rupture, Sanjines argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822354764
• ISBN13: 9780822354765
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"