The Cholo Costeño Beyond Literature

Presently, within national and state discourses, the Ecuadorian coast is first and foremost viewed as mestiza. This has led to the invisibilization of the Coast’s “indianidad”. Although the cholo people of the coast do not speak an ancestral language, they draw strength from their ancestral origins...

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Autor: Macías Barrés, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/1422
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/1422
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ecuador
cholos
costa
identidad
discurso nacional
discurso estatal
coastal region
national discourse
state discourse
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Sumario:Presently, within national and state discourses, the Ecuadorian coast is first and foremost viewed as mestiza. This has led to the invisibilization of the Coast’s “indianidad”. Although the cholo people of the coast do not speak an ancestral language, they draw strength from their ancestral origins to demand their recognition as an ethnic group by the Ecuadorian state. In the following piece, the author aims to highlight the discursive crossroad in which this group built their identity through the appropriation of the term cholo, despite its negative connotation. Thus, we will see how the cholo identity emerges from a literary discourse.