In "The Andes Imagined, " Jorge Coronado not only examines but also recasts the "indigenismo" movement of the early 1900s. Coronado departs from the common critical conception of "indigenismo" as rooted in novels and short stories, and instead analyzes an expansive range of work in poetry, essays, letters, newspaper writing, and photography. He uses this evidence to show how the movement's artists and intellectuals mobilize the figure of the Indian to address larger questions about becoming modern, and he focuses on the contradictions at the heart of "indigenismo" as a cultural, social,...
In "The Andes Imagined, " Jorge Coronado not only examines but also recasts the "indigenismo" movement of the early 1900s. Coronado departs from th...
Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a powerful counterpoint to the often-slanted, predominant view of indigenismo produced by the intellectual elite. Photography offered an inexpensive and readily available technology for producing portraits and other images that allowed lower- and middle-class racialized subjects to create their own distinct rhetoric and vision of their culture. The powerful identity-marking...
Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twent...
