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Jose Carlos Mariategui's Unfinished Revolution - Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru (Hardcover)
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Jose Carlos Mariategui's Unfinished Revolution - Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru (Hardcover)
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The years 1909 1930, the eleven-year presidency of the
businessman-turned-politician Augusto B. Leguia, mark a formative
period of Peruvian modernity, witnessing the continuity of a
process of reconstruction and the development of an intellectual
and cultural tradition after a humbling defeat during the War of
the Pacific (1879 1883). But these years were also fraught with
conflict generated by long-standing divisions and new rivalries. A
postwar generation of intellectuals and artists, led by Jose Carlos
Mariategui and galvanized by left-wing thinking and an avant-garde
aesthetic, sought representation in the fields of politics and the
arts to realize the modernizing potentialities opened up by a
Positivist oligarchy. New political and artistic conceptions raised
their awareness of the fractured sense of nationhood in Peru and
the need for a new project of nation-formation based on a common
political and cultural consciousness. Crucially, this gave rise to
divergent political and artistic positions and practices.
Mariategui s Indigenist-Marxist politics and Modernist-inspired
poetics, through his influential journal Amauta, were pivotal in
revitalizing, conciliating and channeling those of his cohorts and
challengers. Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive
introduction and conclusion, this monograph is ambitious in scope
and depth. It provides fresh readings of key writings of
Mariategui, one of Latin America s most important and revolutionary
political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through the lens of
his poetics, emphasizing the value of this approach for a fuller
understanding of his work s political meaning and impact. It does
so through detailed analysis of the poetic, expressive language
employed in seminal political essays, aimed at forging a new
Marxist position in 1920s Peru. Furthermore, it offers powerful and
original critiques of under-studied intellectuals of this time,
especially aprista-Futurists, Socialists and Indigenists, including
female writers and artists such as Magda Portal, Angela Ramos, and
Julia Codesido whose work he championed. These readings are fully
contextualized in terms of detailed critical study of complex
sociopolitical conditions and positions, and biographical,
intellectual backgrounds of Mariategui and his contemporaries. This
monograph underscores the fundamental importance of Mariategui in
the development of political and artistic practices and projects
that shaped a national, shared, yet also heterogeneous, political
culture and cultural tradition in Peru during and after his
lifetime."
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