Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorics of Ecuadorian National Identity

"Chapter four, ""Performing Indigeneity,"" considers how indigeneity itself serves as a powerful topos in the constitution of Ecuadorian national publics. The chapter pays particular attention to an increasing emphasis on indigeneity as a corporeal matter over the course of the twentieth century. The chapter uses petitions, ""customs and habits"" paintings, newspaper articles, and photographs to argue that indigeneity has served as an embodiable topos for establishing legitimacy and authenticity in political contexts. It traces how non-indigenous actors have taken on a performed indigenous subjectivity in their efforts to establish a claim to social place even while marginalizing actual indigenous participation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Olson, Christa J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hawhee, Debra

• Language, Rhetoric and Composition

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3411451

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81462