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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