Imagining Modernity in the Andes

by Priscilla Archibald

Overview

Imagining Modernity in the Andes deals with the intersection of projects of modernity and cultural representation in the Andes. The Peruvian novelist and anthropologist José María Arguedas occupies a privileged place in a study that charts the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations that took place in the Andes throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In its examination of political and literary indigenistas of the 1920s, applied anthropology in the 1950s, the novelistic response to emigration and urbanization, the theory of transculturation in the era of transnationalism, and the appearance of new visual technologies in a cultural context long defined by the oral-textual divide, Imagining Modernity in the Andes conducts the type of interdisciplinary approach which a full appreciation for the heterodoxies of Andean cultural production makes indispensable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611480122
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	01/06/2011
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Priscilla Archibald is associate professor of Spanish at Roosevelt University. Her publications include articles in Social Text, Revista Iberoamericana, and Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, among other journals and volumes.

Table of Contents

1 Acknowledgments
2 Introduction: Andean Modernities
Chapter 3 1. Decolonizing the Aristocratic Republic
Chapter 4 2. Literary Indigenismo
Chapter 5 3. Science in the Andes
Chapter 6 4. Andean Cosmopolitanism: The City as the Female Grotesque
Chapter 7 5. Urban Transculturations
8 Conclusion: Film, Indigenous Video, and Indigeneity in the Andes
9 Notes
10 Bibliography
11 Index

Editorial Reviews

Archibald's engaging and incisive commentary delves into the fascinating complexities of the indigenista movement in the Andes. J. M. Arguedas is central in her analysis, of course, yet she brings much more to the discussion: the practice of anthropological theory, the role of cultural agency in indigenous video production, and the political tensions of transnational urban contexts.

Regina Harrison

This multidisciplinary work deals with literature, cultural discourse, and some aspects of the social sciences in relation to new configurations of indigenista studies in Peru....The author starts with an analysis of novelists and essayists of the 1920s, seen here as the Peruvian founding fathers of the indigenista movement, and concludes with a study of recent depictions of urbanization and filmmaking in the 1990s. The fictional and anthropological works of José María Arguedas are central to this book, and Archibald examines them in conjunction with constructions of race, ethnicity, and political ideology. This informative overview complements major contributions to the field—Estelle Tarica's The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (CH, Dec'08, 46-1959) and Jorge Coronado's The Andes Imagined (CH, Oct'09, 47-0744), both broad-based engagements with indigenismo. In terms of theory, all three titles are indebted to Benedict Anderson's seminal work on nationalism. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

Choice Reviews

Imagining Modernity in the Andes overcomes the narrowness of Arguedan studies to date by showing how Andean cultures have fundamentally shaped Latin America. It is an outstanding work and will undoubtedly prove to be a major contribution to Andean studies.

Silvia Spitta

This multidisciplinary work deals with literature, cultural discourse, and some aspects of the social sciences in relation to new configurations of indigenista studies in Peru....The author starts with an analysis of novelists and essayists of the 1920s, seen here as the Peruvian founding fathers of the indigenista movement, and concludes with a study of recent depictions of urbanization and filmmaking in the 1990s. The fictional and anthropological works of José María Arguedas are central to this book, and Archibald examines them in conjunction with constructions of race, ethnicity, and political ideology. This informative overview complements major contributions to the field—Estelle Tarica's The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (CH, Dec'08, 46-1959) and Jorge Coronado's The Andes Imagined (CH, Oct'09, 47-0744), both broad-based engagements with indigenismo. In terms of theory, all three titles are indebted to Benedict Anderson's seminal work on nationalism. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. 

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This multidisciplinary work deals with literature, cultural discourse, and some aspects of the social sciences in relation to new configurations of indigenista studies in Peru....The author starts with an analysis of novelists and essayists of the 1920s, seen here as the Peruvian founding fathers of the indigenista movement, and concludes with a study of recent depictions of urbanization and filmmaking in the 1990s. The fictional and anthropological works of José María Arguedas are central to this book, and Archibald examines them in conjunction with constructions of race, ethnicity, and political ideology. This informative overview complements major contributions to the field—Estelle Tarica's The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (CH, Dec'08, 46-1959) and Jorge Coronado's The Andes Imagined (CH, Oct'09, 47-0744), both broad-based engagements with indigenismo. In terms of theory, all three titles are indebted to Benedict Anderson's seminal work on nationalism. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. 

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