Mestizaje upside-down : aesthetic politics in modern Bolivia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sanjinés C., Javier, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004]
Series:	Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:	Mestizaje > Bolivia. Arts, Bolivian. Nationalism > Bolivia. Politics and culture > Bolivia. Bolivia > Intellectual life. Bolivia > Race relations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Modernity from within and without : observing power with both eyes
Chapter 1. Solving the Indian problem : the genealogy of autochthonous discourse
Foundational ambiguity
Racial regeneration and the feigned authenticity of the autochthonous
The irrationalist construction of the nation
Franz Tamayo awakens the nation. Chapter 2. Aestheticizing politics : vision, discipline, and allegorical dissent
Guzmán de Rojas and disciplinary optics
From the mystical landscape to Cholo dissent
Arturo Borda and the rhetoric of decay. Chapter 3. Politicizing art, demystifying mestizaje
Céspedes demystifies Tamayo
Montenegro on nationalism
Zavaleta on the skeletal and the carnal. Chapter 4. Indianizing the q'ara : mestizaje turned upside down
The two katarismos : within, without, against
Moderate katarismo : the "theory of both eyes"
Radical katarismo : El Mallku's viscerality
Displacing mestizaje
Negativity and subaltern knowledge
Subalternity's epistemic and political contribution.