Bolivia's Indian Revolution

Writing Race and Nation in the Contemporary Andes
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-85566-393-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 416, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Monografías A

By exploring key testimonies and political essays written by highland Indigenous activists, this study critically explores how Indianism-Katarism developed as a discourse and a movement, and its continuing influence on public discourse in Bolivia today.

The book examines in detail the work of the Aymara activist, widely considered the intellectual 'founder' of Indianism, Fausto Reinaga, placing his ideas on race and racialization in context and showing how his writings, especially his magnus opus The Indian Revolution, helped to shape Indigenous activism in the Andes. It then turns to the emergence and diversification of Indianism and Katarism from the 1960s and developments since the turn of the millennium, in particular its rearticulation by the Movement Towards Socialism under Evo Morales and contributions from contemporary feminism as articulated in the writings of Hilda Reinaga and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Through an analysis of key essays, manifestos and testimonies, the study explores how Indigenous writers were able to challenge dominant historical narratives to mobilize new political actors. More generally, by reflecting on the relationship between textuality and the material practices of power and resistance, the book shows how cultural studies methodologies can be applied to provide new insights into processes of socio-political change and subjectivation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Writing on the Racial Line: The Radical Indianist Tradition in Bolivia

Part I. Fausto Reinaga and the Fatherless Seeds of Indianism

Chapter 1. In the beginning was the word.

Chapter 2. A Man of the Revolution

Chapter 3. The Gathering Storm: The Indianist Turn

Part II. The Word Made Flesh

Chapter 4. Aporias of Indian Writing

Part III. Disseminations of Indian Writing

Chapter 5. Writing across the Race Line

Chapter 6. The Many Eyes of Katari

Chapter 7. "Nosotras también somos revolucionarias": Indian Women's Writing Under Erasure

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Baker, Peter
PETER BAKER is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling.