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The monumental paintings of the Postrimerias [Four Last Things] from the church of Carabuco (1684) serve as objects to study the complex dynamics of the visual and performative production of religious knowledge in a colonial contact zone. The article presents different readings' of the series that focus on possible uses and receptions of the paintings by local actors. These readings are based, on the one hand, on the idea of conceiving the series as a cycle of meditation' and product of the influences of Christian mysticism that played an important role in the eschatological politics of conversion' of the southern Andean Highlands. On the other hand, the paintings relate the eschatological message with the local hagiographic narratives of a pre-Hispanic apostle associated simultaneously with the Christian apostle Bartholomew and the Andean deity Tunupa-the most important figure of Aymara mythology. These works therefore represent objects of memory that participate in the local construction of time and space and that refer not only to Christian eschatological concepts but also to local Andean ontologies.

The article describes representations of Afro-Argentine identities and its interaction with the hegemonic discourse of a national and cultural Argentine identity, referring to Afro-Argentine texts form the 19th century Buenos Aires. Departing from a brief summary of the construction process of the Argentine nation as an imagined community of white, male citizens, it shows how the black porteño elite on the one hand inscribes the Afro-Argentines in the hegemonic discourse and, on the other hand, establishes certain forms of counter discourse, both to affirm and legitimize their status as members of the national community. ; Este artículo describe las representaciones de las identidades afro-argentinas y sus interacciones con el discurso hegemónico nacional y cultural de la identidad argentina, haciendo referencia a los textos afro-argentinos del Buenos Aires decimonónico. Empezando por un breve sumario del proceso de construcción de la nación argentina como una comunidad imaginada de hombres blancos, se muestra cómo la élite negra porteña por un lado inscribe a los agro-argentinos dentro del discurso hegemónico y por otro lado, establece una suerte de contradiscurso. Las dos estrategias se emplearon para afirmar y legitimar su status como miembros de la comunidad nacional.

The article describes representations of Afro-Argentine identities and its interaction with the hegemonic discourse of a national and cultural Argentine identity, referring to Afro-Argentine texts form the 19th century Buenos Aires. Departing from a brief summary of the construction process of the Argentine nation as an imagined community of white, male citizens, it shows how the black porteño elite on the one hand inscribes the Afro-Argentines in the hegemonic discourse and, on the other hand, establishes certain forms of counter discourse, both to affirm and legitimize their status as members of the national community. ; Este artículo describe las representaciones de las identidades afro-argentinas y sus interacciones con el discurso hegemónico nacional y cultural de la identidad argentina, haciendo referencia a los textos afro-argentinos del Buenos Aires decimonónico. Empezando por un breve sumario del proceso de construcción de la nación argentina como una comunidad imaginada de hombres blancos, se muestra cómo la élite negra porteña por un lado inscribe a los agro-argentinos dentro del discurso hegemónico y por otro lado, establece una suerte de contradiscurso. Las dos estrategias se emplearon para afirmar y legitimar su status como miembros de la comunidad nacional.

The article describes representations of Afro-Argentine identities and its interaction with the hegemonic discourse of a national and cultural Argentine identity, referring to Afro-Argentine texts form the 19th century Buenos Aires. Departing from a brief summary of the construction process of the Argentine nation as an imagined community of white, male citizens, it shows how the black porteño elite on the one hand inscribes the Afro-Argentines in the hegemonic discourse and, on the other hand, establishes certain forms of counter discourse, both to affirm and legitimize their status as members of the national community. ; Este artículo describe las representaciones de las identidades afro-argentinas y sus interacciones con el discurso hegemónico nacional y cultural de la identidad argentina, haciendo referencia a los textos afro-argentinos del Buenos Aires decimonónico. Empezando por un breve sumario del proceso de construcción de la nación argentina como una comunidad imaginada de hombres blancos, se muestra cómo la élite negra porteña por un lado inscribe a los agro-argentinos dentro del discurso hegemónico y por otro lado, establece una suerte de contradiscurso. Las dos estrategias se emplearon para afirmar y legitimar su status como miembros de la comunidad nacional.