The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican and Andean discourses about the relationship between Indians and non-Indians create a unique literary aesthetic that is instrumental in defining the experience of mestizo nationalism.
Engaging with narratives by Jesús Lara, José María Arguedas, and Rosario Castellanos, among other thinkers, Tarica explores the rhetorical and ideological aspects of interethnic affinity and connection. In her examination, she demonstrates that these connections posed a challenge to existing racial hierarchies in Spanish America by celebrating a new kind of national self at the same time that they contributed to new forms of subjection and discrimination.
Going beyond debates about the relative merits of indigenismo and mestizaje, Tarica puts forward a new perspective on indigenista literature and modern mestizo identities by revealing how these ideologies are symptomatic of the dilemmas of national subject formation. The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism offers insight into the contemporary resurgence and importance of indigenista discourses in Latin America.
Estelle Tarica is associate professor of Latin American literature and culture at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Tarica, Estelle

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University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008

United States, United States of America

1, 2008

до 2011-08

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Intimate Indigenismo......Page 12
1. Anatomy of Indigenismo......Page 32
2. The Voice of the Son in Jesús Lara’s Surumi......Page 61
3. José María Arguedas and the Mediating Voice......Page 111
4. Rosario Castellanos at the Edge of Entanglement......Page 168
Conclusion: Listening to Small Voices......Page 214
Notes......Page 232
Bibliography......Page 250
A......Page 264
C......Page 265
I......Page 266
L......Page 268
N......Page 269
R......Page 270
Z......Page 271

This book examines the Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective and shows how modern Mexican and Andean discourses about the relationship between Indians and non-Indians create a literary aesthetic that is instrumental in defining the experience of mestizo nationalism

2011-08-31