Daniel Sacilotto is a professor of critical studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

In his daring and groundbreaking study, Daniel Sacilotto navigates the political theory of José Carlos Mariátegui, the poetic vision of César Vallejo, and the narrative anthropology of José María Arguedas to argue that their seminal engagements with the unemancipated indigenous peoples of the Andes is not a closed chapter for Peruvian history, but a promising corpus to address urgent historical predicaments, and to imagine the possible in our fragmented political present writ large.

• List of Figures; Introduction: The Question of Indigenismo and the Socialist Imaginary; José Carlos Mariátegui’s Critique of Liberalism: From Acculturation to Revolution; From Existential Despair to Collective Jubilation: César Vallejo’s Materialist Poetics; The Light within the World: José María Arguedas and the Limits of Transculturation; The Contemporary Scene: The Future of Indigenismo and the Collapse of the Integrative Dream after Arguedas; Bibliography/Cited Works; Index

Daniel Sacilotto is a professor of critical studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

In his daring and groundbreaking study, Daniel Sacilotto navigates the political theory of José Carlos Mariátegui, the poetic vision of César Vallejo, and the narrative anthropology of José María Arguedas to argue that their seminal engagements with the unemancipated indigenous peoples of the Andes is not a closed chapter for Peruvian history, but a promising corpus to address urgent historical predicaments, and to imagine the possible in our fragmented political present writ large.

• List of Figures; Introduction: The Question of Indigenismo and the Socialist Imaginary; José Carlos Mariátegui’s Critique of Liberalism: From Acculturation to Revolution; From Existential Despair to Collective Jubilation: César Vallejo’s Materialist Poetics; The Light within the World: José María Arguedas and the Limits of Transculturation; The Contemporary Scene: The Future of Indigenismo and the Collapse of the Integrative Dream after Arguedas; Bibliography/Cited Works; Index

Daniel Sacilotto is a professor of critical studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

In his daring and groundbreaking study, Daniel Sacilotto navigates the political theory of José Carlos Mariátegui, the poetic vision of César Vallejo, and the narrative anthropology of José María Arguedas to argue that their seminal engagements with the unemancipated indigenous peoples of the Andes is not a closed chapter for Peruvian history, but a promising corpus to address urgent historical predicaments, and to imagine the possible in our fragmented political present writ large.

• List of Figures; Introduction: The Question of Indigenismo and the Socialist Imaginary; José Carlos Mariátegui’s Critique of Liberalism: From Acculturation to Revolution; From Existential Despair to Collective Jubilation: César Vallejo’s Materialist Poetics; The Light within the World: José María Arguedas and the Limits of Transculturation; The Contemporary Scene: The Future of Indigenismo and the Collapse of the Integrative Dream after Arguedas; Bibliography/Cited Works; Index