The Indian is not an Indian: Indigenism and Arguedas's narrative, revisited

Abstract

Literary Indigenism and the narrative production of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas have long been associated with one another as discursive practices which share the same narrative commitment. This paper attempts to establish the discursive horizon of literary Indigenism, in examining the moods of enunciation and the discursive relations of Arguedas’ work. Also, it discusses the supposed indigenist identity of that work, considering specifically the history of representations of the figure of indigenous people and the Andean world.