The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity » (1st Edition)

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

Repositions Peruvian indigenismo as a discourse of and about modernity, in which the movement's artists and intellectuals used the figure of the Indian to mobilize larger questions about becoming modern.

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Indigenismo, Modernity, Indigenismos, Modernities 1

Chapter 1 The Revolutionary Indio: Jose Carlos Mariátegui's Indigenismo 25

Chapter 2 A Modern Andean Culture? Jose Angel Escalante and Indigenismo at Odds 52

Chapter 3 (Un)Happy Endings: Film, Modernity, and Tradition in Carlos Oquendo de Amat 75

Chapter 4 An Assembly of Voices: Labor and the Publics of Print 102

Chapter 5 Photographs at the Edge: Martin Chambi and the Limits of Lettered Culture 134

Conclusion Reading Indigenismo, Writing the Indio 163

Notes 169

Works Cited 185

Index 195