"!Vana Ilusion!" The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925

Gould, Jeffrey L.

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IN ECUADOR, as elsewhere in Latin America (Gould 1993), the official imagination of national identity has been constructed since the colonial period by the white and white-mestizo elites around the notion of mestizaje (race mixing); it is "an ideology of blanqueamiento (whitening) within the globalizing framework of mestizaje. wl Despite its obvious intention to render racial and ethnic diversity invisible, this Ecuadorian ideology of national identity imposes a racist reading on the map of national territory, which consists of conceiving rural areas as places of racial inferiority, indolence, backwardness (if not savagery), and cultural deprivation.

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Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995‐96

Rahier

1998

American Anthropologist

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The author argues that blackness in Ecuador must be viewed in terms of personal, social, cultural, political, and economic processes embedded in particular time/space contexts. The official imagination of national identity constructed by white and white‐mestizo elites imposes a racist reading on the map of national territory, conceiving rural areas as racially inferior, indolent, backward, and culturally deprived, constituting burdens and challenges to the full development of the nation. In the logic of this racial/spatial order, the migration of blacks to urban centers threatens white‐mestizo society, which can no longer ignore the presence of Afro‐Ecuadorians.

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Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995‐96

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1998

American Anthropologist

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“…13. See Gould (1993), who discusses the shame felt by Indians at their Indianness in his article upon cultural assimilation in Nicaragua.…”

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Latin America and Magical Realism: The Insomnia Plague in Cien Años De Soledad

Robinson¹

2006

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Communities of people have different ways of explaining the world around them and events that occur to them, and these codes for interpreting reality can clash when brought into contact with each other. Latin American writers and scholars have often said that such a clash produces the atmosphere we have come to label magical realist in literature; construing the theory in quite territorial terms, they have claimed that the specific circumstances of Latin America have produced magical realism. 1 In this essay, I explore the use of magical realism in a famous episode from Garcı´a Má rquez's Cien an˜os de soledad. The instance of the insomnia plague has fascinated readers and has attracted various interpretations from academics; these have usually been centred around cultural readings. I explore the passage from three distinct perspectives, cultural, historical and literary. Garcı´a Ma´rquez's Cien an˜os de soledad is a work rich in historical and literary sources, and in order to help determine the impact of political and cultural happenings upon his work, I have also referred extensively also to Garcı´a Ma´rquez's recently published memoirs, which have enabled me to make reasoned judgments about the different spheres of influence upon Garcı´a Ma´rquez's work.

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“…Most of them seem to have believed what Jeffrey Gould called the false myth of the Nicaraguan mestizo and did not think of Nicaragua in terms of ethnicity. 27 But the highlanders do think of themselves in such terms, and for them, the Revolution did not promise a new and better future but rather the destruction their identities. To them, the Sandinistas were just a new breed of Spanish conquistadores, and their survival was at stake.…”

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Identity Wars: Then and Now

Brown

2010

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

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"!Vana Ilusion!" The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925

Cited by 29 publications

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Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995‐96

Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995‐96

Latin America and Magical Realism: The Insomnia Plague in Cien Años De Soledad

Identity Wars: Then and Now

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