“Indigeneity and Writing: Rethinking Indigenismo in Early 20^th Century Latin America”

Thursday, March 9, 2023 (rescheduled date)

2:30pm Central

AGSL (UWM Libraries, 3^rd floor)
UW-Milwaukee

Jorge Coronado
Professor of Latin American and Andean Literatures
Co-Director, Andean Cultures & Histories
Northwestern University 

In this talk, Professor Coronado reconsiders the scholarly frameworks within which we locate indigenista literature, arguably the broadest literary movement in the Latin American 20th century. His goal in doing so is to understand a separate body of lettered practices whose origins cannot be accounted for without considering the role of indigenismo. These ‘other’ lettered practices are mostly, but not solely, created by indigenous peoples. As importantly, accounting for this body of literature involves articulating a notion of indigeneity that does not arise exclusively as an expression of an indigenous identity or culture, but rather as the product of collaborations and exchanges between indigenous and non-indigenous actors in a wide, or widened, discursive field.