In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito as the "new Rome." It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades into the surrounding wilderness, and the purveyor of civilization to the entire region. By the early twentieth cen...

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1. Verfasser:	Capello, Ernesto (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Pittsburgh PA University of Pittsburgh Press 2011
Schriftenreihe:	Pitt Latin American Series
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Gesellschaft Collective memory > Ecuador > Quito Quito (Ecuador) > Historiography > Social aspects Quito (Ecuador) > History Quito (Ecuador) > Population
Online-Zugang:	KUBA1
Zusammenfassung:	In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito as the "new Rome." It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades into the surrounding wilderness, and the purveyor of civilization to the entire region. By the early twentieth century, elites envisioned the city as the heart of a modern, advanced society-poised at the physical and metaphysical centers of the world.     In this original cultural history, Ernesto Capello analyzes the formation of memory, myth, and modernity through the eyes of Quito's diverse populations. By employing Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of chronotopes, Capello views the configuration of time and space in narratives that defined Quito's identity and its place in the world. He explores the proliferation of these imaginings in architecture, museums, monuments, tourism, art, urban planning, literature, religion, indigenous rights, and politics. To Capello, these tropes began to crystallize at the end of the nineteenth century, serving as a tool for distinct groups who laid claim to history for economic or political gain during the upheavals of modernism.       As Capello reveals, Quito's society and its stories mutually constituted each other. In the process of both destroying and renewing elements of the past, each chronotope fed and perpetuated itself. Modern Quito thus emerged at the crux of Hispanism and Liberalism, as an independent global society struggling to keep the memory of its colonial and indigenous roots alive
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Beschreibung:	1 online resource (313 pages)
ISBN:	9780822977438 9780822961666