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General Lecture - Indigenismo

Bartolomé de Las Casas published a powerful indictment of Spanish treatment of Native Americans in 1552, known as the "Black Legend". It portrayed the peaceful, innocent Native Americans and the cruel, self-serving Spaniards. The Black Legend spread widely through translations and allowed Protestants to criticize Spanish actions in the New World. José María Arguedas was a Peruvian author who wrote about the impact of acculturation on indigenous Andean cultures through anthropological essays and literature. He pioneered Quechua poetry and novels reflecting life from an indigenous perspective.

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General Lecture - Indigenismo

Bartolomé de Las Casas published a powerful indictment of Spanish treatment of Native Americans in 1552, known as the "Black Legend". It portrayed the peaceful, innocent Native Americans and the cruel, self-serving Spaniards. The Black Legend spread widely through translations and allowed Protestants to criticize Spanish actions in the New World. José María Arguedas was a Peruvian author who wrote about the impact of acculturation on indigenous Andean cultures through anthropological essays and literature. He pioneered Quechua poetry and novels reflecting life from an indigenous perspective.

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

• In 1552, Bartolomé de Las Casas,


formerly Bishop of Chiapas, began what
became known as the "Black Legend" by
publishing a powerful and lasting
indictment of Spanish behavior toward
Indian populations in the New World
The Black Legend
• At the Legend's core are two intertwined
stereotypes: that of the peaceable, childlike,
innocent Indian and that of the cruel,
rapacious, self-serving Spaniard.
Popularity of the Black Legend
• What gave the Black Legend its strength and
resiliency was not Las Casas himself, but the
printing press. By the third quarter of the 16th
century, Las Casas's writings had been translated
into French, Dutch, and English.
• For Protestants, Las Casas's condemnation of his
own people and catalogue of their injustices
allowed them to quote the Catholic devil against
his cohorts and to argue for a greater non-Spanish
European presence in the New World.
José María Arguedas
(1911-1969)
• José María Arguedas (1911-1969) is one of the
most important authors to speak to issues of the
survival of native cultures.

• The life and works of José María Arguedas reflect


in a seminal way the drama of acculturation and
transculturation suffered not only by what we
think of as the indigenous and mestizo cultures of
Peru, …
Arguedas…/
• but by other Latin American societies as
well. Intricately reflecting his pluricultural
and bilingual life experience, Arguedas’s
illuminating poetic visions of Andean
culture cross multidisciplinary borders to
transfigure pedagogical and social practices.
Arguedas…/
• Few texts convey the complexity and contradictions
of an Andean cosmopolitanism with the intense
accuracy of Arguedas’s anthropological, ethnographic
essays and literary writings. The ramifications of
Arguedas’s cultural critiques have yet to be assessed,
particularly as a response to the disruptive forces of
modernity, acculturation, and essential identity.
Arguedas…/
• José María Arguedas was a Peruvian
ethnographer, anthropologist, folklorist,
poet, and novelist. He based his novels and
stories on the life and outlook of the
Quechua-speaking Indians and was a
pioneer of modern Quechua poetry.

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