Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

Juan E. De Castro is an Associate Professor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. He is the author of four books on Latin American literature, including Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí, to García Márquez to Bolaño (Vanderbilt University Press, 2019).

• Acknowledgements1 Introduction1 Mariátegui’s Reception in the English-Speaking World2 Mariátegui in (Mostly) Latin America3 On This Book2 José Carlos Mariátegui: The Making of a Revolutionary in the Aristocratic Republic1 Lima in the Early 1900s2 Manuel González Prada and the Radicals3 Colónida4 A Sublime Dance5 Turn Left6 A Polemical Exile7 Italy and Gramsci8 Back to Peru and Death9 After-Death and After-Life3 Mariátegui, Sorel and Myth1 Mariátegui and Sorel2 The Myth in Sorel3 Sorel in Mariátegui4 Rational Irrationalism5 Indigenous Cultures and the Myth6 Conclusion4 José Carlos Mariátegui: From Race to Culture1 The Peruvian and International Context2 The Discrediting of Racism3 Mariátegui as Anti-racist4 Conclusion5 Mariátegui’s Cosmopolitan Nationalism1 One World Not Three (or Two)2 Making Peru Peruvian3 A Brief Pre-history of Mariátegui’s Indigenismo4 Thinking Globally, Writing Locally5 The Nation as Myth6 Conclusion6 José Carlos Mariátegui and the Politics of Literature1 Art, Revolution and Decadence2 The Absolute in Bergson, Ibérico, and Mariátegui3 Revolutionary Literature and Reality4 On Chaplin5 Literature on Trial6 César Vallejo7 Conclusion7 José Carlos Mariátegui and the Culture of Politics1 Mariátegui’s Anti-politics2 Haya’s Impossible Candidacy3 The New Spirit4 The Platform of the Partido Nacionalista Libertador del Peru5 Party Structure6 Caudillismo or/and Fascism7 Partido Socialista8 Popular Fronts9 Conclusion8 Mariátegui and Argentina: Celebrating Buenos Aires, Criticising Communism1 Buenos Aires and Mexico City as Cultural Meridians2 Mestizo Argentina3 Motley Crew4 Defending Marxism5 Defense of Heresy6 Apologia pro vita sua7 Amauta/Sur8 Conclusion9 Mariátegui and Che: Reflections on and around Walter Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries1 Hugo Pesce as Mediator2 From Mariátegui to Che3 The New Man4 Mariátegui as a Founder of Discursivity5 Conclusion: Mariátegui, Che and Borges10 Epilogue: A Tale of Two Quijanos1 The ‘Reencounter’2 Mode of Production3 Mariátegui’s Debates4 Thirty Years Later5 Mariátegui, Anti-Eurocentrism, and Modes of Production6 Alternative Rationality7 Quijano as the Paradigm8 Conclusion: Mariátegui UnpluggedBibliographyIndex