Indigenous Mestizos
Indigenous Mestizos

Author: Marisol de la Cadena

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780822324201

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A study of how Cuzco's indigenous people have transformed the terms "Indian" and "mestizo" from racial categories to social ones, thus creating a de-stigmatized version of Andean heritage.

In Search of an Inca
In Search of an Inca

Author: Alberto Flores Galindo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-07

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0521591341

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This book examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice.

Lines in the Sand
Lines in the Sand

Author: William E. Skuban

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780826342232

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Skuban's study highlights the fabricated nature of national identity in what became one of the most contentious border disputes in South American history.

Mirages of Transition
Mirages of Transition

Author: Nils Jacobsen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-10-08

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0520082915

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"One of the finest works on Latin America to come along in a decade. . . . Jacobsen's methods . . . have relevance for many other areas of rural Latin America. . . [and] will set the standard for some time to come."—Erick D. Langer, Carnegie-Mellon University

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003

Author: Daniel Balderston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 701

ISBN-13: 113439960X

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.

Making Machu Picchu
Making Machu Picchu

Author: Mark Rice

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-08-17

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1469643545

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Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham's advice. When Bingham first encountered Machu Picchu, the site was an obscure ruin. Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu is the focus of Peru's tourism economy. Mark Rice's history of Machu Picchu in the twentieth century—from its "discovery" to today's travel boom—reveals how Machu Picchu was transformed into both a global travel destination and a powerful symbol of the Peruvian nation. Rice shows how the growth of tourism at Machu Picchu swayed Peruvian leaders to celebrate Andean culture as compatible with their vision of a modernizing nation. Encompassing debates about nationalism, Indigenous peoples' experiences, and cultural policy—as well as development and globalization—the book explores the contradictions and ironies of Machu Picchu's transformation. On a broader level, it calls attention to the importance of tourism in the creation of national identity in Peru and Latin America as a whole.

Trials of Nation Making
Trials of Nation Making

Author: Brooke Larson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-01-19

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521567305

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This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the turbulent nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were postcolonial transitions more vexed or violent than in the Andes, where communal indigenous roots grew deep and where the 'Indian problem' seemed so daunting to liberalizing states. Brooke Larson paints vivid portraits of Creole ruling élites and native peasantries engaged in ongoing political and moral battles over the rightful place of the Indian majorities in these emerging nation-states. In this story, indigenous people emerge as crucial protagonists through their prosaic struggles for land, community, and 'ethnic' identity, as well as in the upheaval of war, rebellion, and repression in rural society. This book raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary 'republics without citizens'.

The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction
The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction

Author: Donald L. Shaw

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1998-07-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1438419716

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What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism.