Javier Sanjinés C. is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of books including Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia.

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