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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463891203321

Autore

Coronado Jorge

Titolo

The Andes imagined : indigenismo, society, and modernity / / Jorge Coronado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8229-7356-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas

Disciplina

985.06/31

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Peru - History - 20th century

Identity (Psychology) - Peru

Electronic books.

Peru Civilization 20th century

Peru Civilization Indian influences

Peru Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Indigenismo, modernity, indigenismos, modernities -- The revolutionary indio : Jose Carlos Mariátegui's indigenismo -- A modern Andean culture? : Jose Ángel Escalante and indigenismo at odds -- (Un)happy endings : film, modernity, and tradition in Carlos Oquendo de Amat -- An assembly of voices : labor and the publics of print -- Photographs at the edge : Martín Chambi and the limits of lettered culture -- Reading indigenismo, writing the indio.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Andes Imagined, Jorge Coronado not only examines but also recasts the indigenismo movement of the early 1900's. 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