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Imagining Modernity in the Andes deals with the intersection of projects of modernity and cultural representation in the Andes. The Peruvian novelist and anthropologist Joséeacute; Maríiacute;a 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.
List 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
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.
