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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.

Publication Info. [United States] : Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
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.
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Subject National characteristics, Ecuadorian -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, Ecuadorian.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject National characteristics, Ecuadorian -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Indians of South America.
Ecuador.
Social conditions.
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Rhetoric -- Ecuador -- History -- 19th century.
Rhetoric.
Rhetoric -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9780271063621 (electronic book)
0271063629 (electronic book)
Music No. MWT11634079