Topics in Cultural Studies (450-0-1)
Topic
Indigeneities and Textuality in Latin America
Instructors
Jorge F Coronado
847/491-8277
3-135 Crowe
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-425: Thurs 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
Indigeneity and Textuality in Latin America.
This course explores the notion of indigeneity and its attendant textual manifestations and representations in literary and cultural production in Latin America. First, we will consider some definitions of the term, ranging from the implicit in colonial-era texts, to the explicit in 19th and 20th century narratival and essayistic production. Secondly, we will dive into the large, diverse scholarship—much of it contemporary and ranging in origin from social sciences such as anthropology and archaeology to humanities such as history and literary studies—that has attempted to articulate indigeneity in connection to the demands of, alternately, nationalisms, vindicatory movements, social revolution, identitarian politics, and other political and cultural formations in the continent. Key amongst our considerations will be understanding not simply the shapes that indigeneity takes within these disciplinary, cultural and political contexts, but also the mechanisms that allow it to move and transform between them. We will pay special attention to the place of writing and will seek to account for the generation of indigeneity from lettered and cultural objects and their historical moments. Readings will be selected from a range of primary and secondary texts and may include Guaman Poma de Ayala, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Popol Vuh, el Manuscrito de Huarochirí, Manuel Gamio, José Carlos Mariátegui, Fausto Reinaga, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, José María Arguedas, Gamaliel Churata, Alison Spedding, Blanca Wiethüchter, César Calvo, Rigoberta Menchú, Marisol de la Cadena, Gonzalo Lamana, Mary Louise Pratt, Joanne Rappaport, Tom Cummins, Bruce Mannheim, Martin Lienhard, el Taller de Historia Oral Andina, and others. Course will be taught in English and/or Spanish, depending on the Spanish proficiency of the students enrolled. Course will be taught in English and/or Spanish, depending on the Spanish proficiency of the students enrolled.
Learning Objectives
The student will be familiarized with a primary corpus of Latin American indigenous writing and representations of indigenous peoples. Also, they will be familiarized the secondary literature, that is scholarship, that will be used in analizing and discussing these works.
Class Materials (Required)
All materials will be available on course website.
Primary Readings
Dioses y hombres de Huarochirí (IEP)
Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nueva coronica y buen gobierno (Ayacucho)
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios reales de los Incas tomos i y ii(Ayacucho)
Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, Antigüedades peruanas, tomos i y ii (1851)
Clorinda Matto de Turner, Aves sin nido (Ayacucho)
Taller de Historia Oral Andina, El Indio Santos Marka T'ula, cacique principal de los ayllus de Qallapa y apoderado general de la comunidades originarias de la República (UMSA)
José María Arguedas, Yawar Fiesta (Horizonte)
Gamaliel Churata, El pez de oro, (Cátedra)
Elizabeth Burgos y Rigoberta Menchú, Me llamó Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia (siglo xxi)
Luis Valcárcel, Tempestad en los Andes (Universo)
Fausto Reinaga, La revolución india (MINKA)
Secondary Readings
Gabriela Ramos, "Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities"
Peter Wade, "The Meaning of Race and Ethnicity"
Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn, "Indigeneidad: problemáticas, experiencias y agendas en el nuevo milenio"
Alan Durston, "Cristóbal Choquesaca and the Making of the Huarochirí Manuscript"
Kathryn Burns, "Marking Indigenous Archives"
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch'ixinakax utxiwa Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores
Margartia Zamora, ""Mestizo… Me Llamo a Boca Llena y Me Honro con Él": Race in Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru"
Gonzalo Lamana, "Signifyin(g), Doube Consciousness, and Coloniality: The Royal Commentaries as Theory of Practice and Political Project"
---, "Introduction" How Indians Think
Sara Castro Klarén, "Archeology and the Rise of the Nation"
Jorge Coronado, "Sobre la noción de lo andino: Ciencia, literatura y consumo"
Antonio Cornejo Polar, "Aves sin nido: Indios, ‘notables' y forasteros"
Rebecca Earle, "Patriotic History and the Pre-Columbian Past"
Norma Klahn, "El indigenismo desde la indigeneidad"
Marcia Stephenson, "Forging an Indigenous Public Sphere"
Marisol de la Cadena, "Mariano's Archive: The Eventfulness of the Ahistorical"
Mauro Mamani, ""El poderoso que habla": el río y las dinámicas socioculturales en la poesía de José María Arguedas"
Martín Oyata, "Una poética de la sensibilidad. José María Arguedas y la invención de la cultura andina"
Elizabeth Monasterios, "La inquietante "Homilía del Khori Challwa""
---, "Unexpected (And Perhaps Unwanted) Revisionisms: La Contramarcha Vanguardista de Gamaliel Churata y Arturo Borda"
Helena Usandizaga, "Introducción"
Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, México profundo
John Beverley, "The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta)"
Mario Blaser, "Translating Neoliberalism" and "A World in Which Many Worlds (Are Forced to) Fit"
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment Requirements: Please contact the department of Spanish & Portuguese to request a permission number, spanish-portuguese@northwestern.edu.