Mestizaje and revolution in Julio Baudouin's El cóndor pasa...

Abstract

This article analyzes the figure of the mestizo in Julio Baudouin's 1913 play El cóndor pasa.... It demostrates that El cóndor pasa offers a competing vision to that shown by some interpreters of Inca Garcilaso in the Peruvian field of cultural production during this period. The work of Baudouin depicts mestizaje as a revolutionary process not interested in achieving national unity nor resolving the historical differences of the then new country (symbolized by Garcilaso), but imagined a society where natives could free themselves from European oppression and return to their former Inca splendor.