The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American
indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica's work
shows how modern Mexican and Andean discourses about the
relationship between Indians and non-Indians create a unique
literary aesthetic that is instrumental in defining the experience
of mestizo nationalism. Engaging with narratives by Jesus Lara,
Jose Maria Arguedas, and Rosario Castellanos, among other thinkers,
Tarica explores the rhetorical and ideological aspects of
interethnic affinity and connection. In her examination, she
demonstrates that these connections posed a challenge to existing
racial hierarchies in Spanish America by celebrating a new kind of
national self at the same time that they contributed to new forms
of subjection and discrimination. Going beyond debates about the
relative merits of indigenismo and mestizaje, Tarica puts forward a
new perspective on indigenista literature and modern mestizo
identities by revealing how these ideologies are symptomatic of the
dilemmas of national subject formation. The Inner Life of Mestizo
Nationalism" offers insight into the contemporary resurgence and
importance of indigenista discourses in Latin America. Estelle
Tarica is associate professor of Latin American literature and
culture at the University of California, Berkeley.
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