Amauta (magazine)

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Amauta was an influential Peruvian Marxist and cultural magazine of the late 1920s that became a key platform for socialist thought, indigenous issues, and avant-garde art in Latin America.

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instanceOf Marxist magazine
cultural magazine
magazine
socialist periodical
associatedWith Socialist Party of Peru
surface form: Peruvian Socialist Party

workers’ and peasants’ movements in Peru
circulationArea Peru
other Latin American countries
countryOfOrigin Peru
editorInChief José Carlos Mariátegui
focusesOn agrarian question
education and culture
indigenous issues in Peru
foundedBy José Carlos Mariátegui
genre art magazine
literary magazine
political magazine
hasContributor César Vallejo
Jorge Basadre
José Carlos Mariátegui
José María Arguedas
Magda Portal
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
historicalContext late 1920s Peru
ideology Marxism
anti-imperialism
socialism
inception 1926
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
mainSubject Latin American culture
Marxism
Peruvian politics
avant-garde art
indigenismo
socialism
workers’ movement
medium print
namedAfter Amauta (Quechua word for “wise person” or “teacher”)
politicalAlignment left-wing
publicationPeriodEnd 1930
publicationPeriodStart 1926
publisherLocation Lima
reasonForEnd political repression and the death of José Carlos Mariátegui
regionServed Latin America
significance important forum for Latin American avant-garde art
key platform for socialist thought in Latin America
major organ of Peruvian indigenismo
status defunct

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José Carlos Mariátegui founded Amauta (magazine)