{"id":18654,"date":"2011-12-03T02:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2011-12-03T02:17:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:17:16","slug":"the-inner-life-of-mestizo-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18654","title":{"rendered":"The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-inner-life-of-mestizo-nationalism\" target=\"_blank\">The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Minnesota Press<\/a><br \/>\n2008<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iastp.berkeley.edu\/People-Detail\/Estelle%20Tarica\" target=\"_blank\">Estelle Tarica<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-inner-life-of-mestizo-nationalism\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-inner-life-of-mestizo-nationalism\/image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Engaging with narratives by <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jes%C3%BAs_Lara\" target=\"_blank\">Jes\u00fas Lara<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Arguedas\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Arguedas<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosario_Castellanos\" target=\"_blank\">Rosario Castellanos<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Going beyond debates about the relative merits of <em>indigenismo<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a><\/em>, 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. <em>The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism<\/em> offers insight into the contemporary resurgence and importance of indigenista discourses in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica\u2019s work shows how modern Mexican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,1196,8,17,3015],"tags":[8489,8490,8491,8492,341],"class_list":["post-18654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","tag-estelle-tarica","tag-jesus-lara","tag-jose-maria-arguedas","tag-rosario-castellanos","tag-university-of-minnesota-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}