Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivian Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro’s Carnival

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. About the Series v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Foreword xi
6. 1. ESCRITURA. On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories
7. Point and Counterpoint 1
8. After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After 12
9. Essaying the History of National Images 58
10. 2. POETICA. Knowledges, Nations, Histories
11. Postcolonialism avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth- Century Colonial Spanish America 89
12. ‘‘Aquel laberinto de oficinas’’: Ways of Knowing Empire in Late- Nineteenth-Century Spain 111
13. Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation 141
14. Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivian Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro’s Carnival 176
15. 3. POLITICA. Governmentalities, States, Subjects
16. Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809–1815 223
17. Postcolonialism as Self-Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 1814–1828 248
18. The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador 272
19. Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia 310
20. Contributors 347
21. Index 349