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City at the Center of the World - Space, History, and Modernity in Quito (Paperback, New)
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City at the Center of the World - Space, History, and Modernity in Quito (Paperback, New)
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined
Quito as the \u201cnew Rome.\u201d 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 QuitoÆs diverse
populations. By employing Mikhail BakhtinÆs concept of
chronotopes, Capello views the configuration of time and space in
narratives that defined QuitoÆs 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, QuitoÆs 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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