Narrativas de identidad. De la nación mestiza a los recientes desplazamientos de la metáfora social en Bolivia.

This paper argues that the construction of the "nation" was linked to narratives of identity (novels and essays). The first narrative identities that produced important metaphors, such as the one about ideal crossbreeding, jealously controlled the social climb of indigenous people. After regimenting the native people under the tough Tamayo's notion of national pedagogy, Sanjinés proceeds to deterritorialize the idealized mestizo identity from three new versions that give fluidity to the social metaphor: the metaphor of the river, the one about an avalanche of the plebs and another about a cultural amphibian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]