The Andes Imagined

by Coronado, Jorge

• ISBN13: 9780822960249
• ISBN10: 0822960249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

In The Andes Imagined, Jorge Coronado not only examines but also recasts the indigenismo movement of the early 1900s. Coronado departs from the common critical conception of indigenismo as rooted in novels and short stories, and instead analyzes an expansive range of work in poetry, essays, letters, newspaper writing, and photography. He uses this evidence to show how the movement's artists and intellectuals mobilize the figure of the Indian to address larger questions about becoming modern, and he focuses on the contradictions at the heart of indigenismo as a cultural, social, and political movement. By breaking down these different perspectives, Coronado reveals an underlying current in which intellectuals and artists frequently deployed their indigenous subject in order to imagine new forms of political inclusion. He suggests that these deployments rendered particular variants of modernity and make indigenismo representational practices a privileged site for the examination of the region's cultural negotiation of modernization. His analysis reveals a paradox whereby the un-modern indio becomes the symbol for the modern itself.The Andes Imagined offers an original and broadly based engagement with indigenismo and its intellectual contributions, both in relation to early twentieth-century Andean thought and to larger questions of theorizing modernity.

Author Biography

Jorge Coronado is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Indigenismo, Modernity, Indigenismos, Modernities	p. 1
The Revolutionary Indio: Jose Carlos Mariátegui's Indigenismo	p. 25
A Modern Andean Culture? Jose Angel Escalante and Indigenismo at Odds	p. 52
(Un)Happy Endings: Film, Modernity, and Tradition in Carlos Oquendo de Amat	p. 75
An Assembly of Voices: Labor and the Publics of Print	p. 102
Photographs at the Edge: Martin Chambi and the Limits of Lettered Culture	p. 134
Conclusion Reading Indigenismo, Writing the Indio	p. 163
Notes	p. 169
Works Cited	p. 185
Index	p. 195
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