Estelle Tarica, Bibliography My research is primarily concerned with

Estelle Tarica, Bibliography
My research is primarily concerned with race and nation in modern Spanish America, especially
with discourses of mestizaje and indigenismo in Mexico and the Andes. It has led to an ongoing
fascination with the work of writers such as José María Arguedas, Jesús Lara, and Rosario
Castellanos. My forthcoming book, Intimate Indigenismo: The Inner Life of Mestizo
Nationalism, examines how these authors and others created an autobiographical indigenista
literary aesthetic in the mid-twentieth century that attempted to challenge existing racial
hierarchies and reflected new concepts of national subjectivity.
I have also been interested in the literary practice of Quechua-Spanish translation in Peru and
Bolivia, and have undertaken many years of Quechua language study. More recently, I have
begun to explore a new avenue of research linking Jewish Studies to Latin American Studies. I
am interested in how the response of European Jews to the Holocaust has shaped approaches to
colonial violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly through the work of memory
and metaphor.
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Intimate Indigenismo: The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism. University of Minnesota
Press. Forthcoming book.
“Where You Don’t Belong: On the Construction of Cultural ‘Otherness’ in Leo Spitzer’s
Hotel Bolivia.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 15.1 (2006): 17-37.
“El ‘decir limpio’ de Arguedas: la voz bilingüe, 1940-1958.” José María Arguedas: hacia
una poética migrante. Ed. Sergio R. Franco. Pittsburgh: IILI, 2006. 23-38.
“La historia de la heterogeneidad.” Memorias de JALLA 2004 Lima: Jornadas Andinas
de Literatura Latinoamericana Vol III. Ed. Carlos García-Bedoya. Lima: CELACP, 2006.
134-151.
“Viajes a las rocas y las ruinas: visiones del valle de Inkallajta a la sima fecunda.”
Construcción y poética del imaginario boliviano. Ed. Josefa Salmón. La Paz: Plural
Editores, 2005. 83-95.
“Fragments of a Dream: Che’s Image in Contemporary Bolivian Narrative.” Chasqui.
32.2 (2003): 96-114.
“In the Land of Broken Jugs: Francisco Rojas González and Mexican Indigenismo at
Mid-twentieth Century.” Latin American Literary Review 59 (2002): 100-121.
“Entering the Lettered City: Jesús Lara and the Formation of a Quechua Literary
Patrimony in the Andes.” Morrison Library inaugural address series no. 21. Berkeley,
CA: Doe Library, University of California, 2001.