About the Series  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

Foreword / Walter Mignolo  xiii

Introduction. Modernity in the Balance, The "Transgressive" Essay, and Decolonization  1

1. The Changing Faces of Historical Time  29

2. Is the Nation an Imagined Community  57

3. "Now Time": Subaltern Pasts and Contested Historicism  97

4. The Dimensions of the Nation and the Displacements of Social Metaphor in Bolivia  143

Notes  183

References  197

Index  209

Walter D. Mignolo

"Embers of the Past is a major statement on nation-building and nation deconstruction. Arguing that the construction of nations on the bases of modernity and linear history facilitated the rise of Europeans and the decline of Latin American communities, Javier Sanjinés C. unravels not only those concepts but also others including Eurocentrism, capitalism, multitude, indio, criollo, leterado, and iletrado. He calls for the disarticulation of Western thinking and metaphors, the debunking of 'universalism' and 'progress.'"—Ileana Rodríguez, author of Liberalism at Its Limits: Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text

"In Embers of the Past, Javier C. Sanjinés takes as his point of departure the problems of modernity and Western models of development in present-day Bolivia. Yet this fascinating book can be usefully applied in any society with a significant subalternized or racialized population. Sanjinés reveals ethnicity as a complex process of reworking and reinventing culture, a process that relates the present with the ancestral past in more composite ways than one would have imagined."—Arturo Arias, author of Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

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