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Informationen zum Autor Mark Thurner is Associate Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is the author of From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, also published by Duke University Press.Andrés Guerrero is affiliated with La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), a research institute with branches in all Latin American countries. He is the author of numerous books in Spanish. Klappentext ""After Spanish Rule" occupies the ground between Latin American exceptionalism and the so-called universalism of postcolonial studies. These essays enrich the field of postcolonial studies by bringing Latin American materials within its purview."--Gyan Prakash, editor of" After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements" Zusammenfassung Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism! this title features essays that give insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts! ranging from the narratives of 18th century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Foreword / Shahid Amin xi 1. Escritura: On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories Point and Counterpoint / Andrés Guerrero 3 After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After / Mark Thurner 12 Essaying the History of National Images / Maricio Tenorio Trillo 58 2. Poetica: Knowledges, Nations, Histories Postcolonialism avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish America / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 89 "Aquel laberinto de oficinas": Ways of Knowing Empire in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spain / Javier Morillo-Alicea 111 Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation / Mark Thurner 141 Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivia Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro's Carnival / Thomas A. Abercrombie 176 3. Politica: Governmentalities, States, Subjects Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809–1815 / Marixa Lasso 223 Postcolonialism as Self-Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 1814–1828 / Peter Guardino 248 The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador / Andrés Guerrero 272 Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia / Joanne Rappaport 310 Contributors 347 Index 349...
