Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

by Christa J. Olson

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271061995
• ISBN13: 9780271061993
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"