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Author Coronado, Jorge, author

Title The Andes imagined : indigenismo, society, and modernity / Jorge Coronado
Published Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations
Series Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections PPiU
University of PIttsburgh Press Digital Editions PPiU
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Indigenismo, Modernity, Indigenismos, Modernities -- 1. The Revolutionary Indio: Jose Carlos Marie¡tegui's Indigenismo -- 2. A Modern Andean Culture? : Jose Engel Escalante and Indigenismo at Odds -- 3. (Un)Happy Endings: Film, Modernity, and Tradition in Carlos Oquendo de Amat -- 4. An Assembly of Voices: Labor and the Publics of Print -- 5. Photographs at the Edge: Martin Chambi and the Limits of Lettered Culture -- Conclusion: Reading Indigenismo, Writing the Indio -- Notes -- Works Cited
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ethnicity -- Peru -- History -- 20th century
Identity (Psychology) -- Peru
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
HISTORY -- General.
Civilization
Civilization -- Indian influences
Ethnicity
Identity (Psychology)
Intellectual life
Identität
Indigenes Volk
Ureinwohner.
Identität.
Littérature péruvienne -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
SUBJECT Peru -- Civilization -- 20th century
Peru -- Civilization -- Indian influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005311
Peru -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Peru
Anden
Peru
Peru.
Pérou -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822973560
0822973561
0822960249
9780822960249