{"product_id":"inventing-indigenism-9781477324080","title":"Inventing Indigenism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing Indigenism\u003c\/i\u003e winds through the dense and entangled evolution of nationalist concepts and emblematic racial envisionings of the Peruvian Indian, Indigeneity, and Indigenism...[Majluf's] narratives are compelling...and advance important information and insights through intricate and multifaceted analyses that view the notion of nation as unstable...\u003ci\u003eInventing Indigenism\u003c\/i\u003e is a multilayered examination of nation building. At the same time, the book asks all readers to consider how racial stereotypes and perspectives of the past, embedded in complex political and cultural viewpoints, continue as present day unfixed social constructs that still function in assessing the identity of self as well as others. * caa.reviews *\u003cbr\u003e[An] engagingly written and meticulously researched book…Among the many high-quality illustrations, the dark symmetry of the 'Inhabitant' amply depicts the dignity of Indian suffering, while a ceramic figurine, cupped reverentially in his hands, references the 'violent stifling' of Inca society and the resultant sense of loss that Laso believed to be imprinted in Indian memory. That is one message of this book. Its other considerable achievement is to have begun the restoration of the nineteenth century to its rightful place in the cultural history of both Peru and Latin America. * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study...The book, like a fine exhibition, is expertly curated to guide the reader through a fascinating exposition about the nineteenth-century origins of modern pictorial indigenism in Peru as featured in Laso’s work...This compelling and exquisite book is the product of a dedicated and masterful Art Historian. It is a book that should be required reading for every Latin American scholar conducting research on the complexities of colonial and republican legacies of Peruvian indigenism and identity politics. Natalia Majful’s contextual analysis and insightful expertise has rendered a valuable and most welcome scholarly contribution to both academic and nonacademic enthusiasts of Latin American art. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003eMajluf’s study is a welcome and much-needed addition...Her use of Francisco Laso’s iconic painting \u003ci\u003eInhabitant of the Cordilleras of Peru\u003c\/i\u003e (1855) as a point of departure for the exploration of multiple discourses on Andean indigeneity in nineteenth-century Peru is an inspired strategic move. It reveals an artist who understood his world and the processes at work as Peru struggled to define itself...[Majluf's] study stands as a model for research in nineteenth-century Latin American art history, and her book should be of great interest to a range of audiences, given its nuanced exploration of the intersections between indigeneity, nationalist politics, and visual culture. * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing Indigenism\u003c\/i\u003e is proof of the high-quality studies that can be produced through deep levels of understanding of images and visuality across time, space, and disciplines. One painting and its broad signification brings forth current discussions on postcolonial studies and transnationality; it displaces the perpetuation of the colonial as a cultural construct and deeply engages with the possibilities of revisiting and rewriting the past. The book is complex and at the same time simple, as it comes across as an urgent study of not only art and art making but also race and representation in Latin America. It is a strong, challenging, and yet empathic study, necessary for contemporary times as a very smart model of what art history can and must urgently do. * Latin American \u0026amp; Latinx Visual Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is impossible to summarize with any justice the richness and sophistication of the analysis that Majluf carries out in the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEs imposible de resumir con justicia. A continuación, presentaré solo algunos elementos de sus capítulos centrales y luego estableceré un breve diálogo con el libro.\u003c\/p\u003e * Revista Hispánica Moderna *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrancisco Laso: A Republican Biography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndigenism’s National Imaginaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Society, into Painting, and Back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrecedents: A Short History of the Indian—Concept and Image\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Indian: Image of the Nation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Local Antiquity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdealization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePainting’s Critical Function\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGonzalo Pizarro: The Scene of Conquest and the Spanish Legacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Indian as Cultural Concept\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreole Failures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Indian as Allegory and Symbol\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Scene of Approximation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Country of Melancholy: The Creole Invention of the Andean World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMelancholy’s Modern Transformations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Andean Legend: The Burial of the Priest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Inscrutable Indian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rhetoric of Approximation: The Pascana Series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Critical Fortune of Racial Readings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReading Race: The Role of the Viewer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Construction of the Indian Image\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Picturing Race \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImpossible Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Elusive Indian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: Personal Narratives, Public Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408960233815,"sku":"9781477324080","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477324080.jpg?v=1730504868","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-indigenism-9781477324080","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}