The Andes Imagined : Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Illuminations Series ; v.74 .
- Illuminations Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Indigenismo, Modernity, Indigenismos, Modernities -- 1. The Revolutionary Indio: José Carlos Mariátegui's Indigenismo -- 2. A Modern Andean Culture? : José Ángel 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: Martín Chambi and the Limits of Lettered Culture -- Conclusion: Reading Indigenismo, Writing the Indio -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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.