Mestizo Nationalism

Recorded March 7, 2005

Below is the original description of the event.

In the mid-20th-century, a group of writers from Mexico, Bolivia and Peru attempted to describe what might be called the “inner life” of mestizo nationality. Prof. Tarica will examine particular instances of this mode of narrating the experience of modern nationality; discuss the important role played by indigenismo in making these attempts possible; and address them as forms of what Marisol de la Cadena terms “subordinate racism.”

Estelle Tarica is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and is currently finishing her first book, Intimate Indigenismo.