Fausto Reinaga

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Fausto Reinaga (born March 27, 1906 in Macha , Bolivia , † August 19, 1994 ) was an indigenous writer.

Life

Fausto Reinaga was the son of Jenaro Reinaga and Alejandra Chavarría, a great-great-granddaughter of Tomás Katari, and was baptized in the name of José Félix . Both parents had taken part in the uprising of 1898 under Zárate Willka . As the only surviving son of his parents - his two sisters were abused and killed by large landowners, his younger brother Alberto died while serving in the army - he was appointed by the council of elders to study in Oruro in order to later lead his people. They gave him the Indian name Ruphaj Katari according to his origin . As a writer, he chose the pseudonym Fausto Reinaga to express his admiration for Goethe's Faust .

Fausto Reinaga became the great pioneer and founder of Indianism. On November 15, 1962 he founded the first Indian party PIAK (Partido de Indios Aymaras y Keswas), which was later renamed PIB ( Partido Indio de Bolivia ). Fausto was an ardent advocate of Marxism until around 1960 . He was invited to a trade union congress in Leipzig in 1957 and also to Russia . On his return he took part in a communist congress in Montevideo , where he was arrested and his work "El Sentimiento Messianico del Pueblo Ruso" was confiscated. The communists did not help him, he had to be repatriated by the Bolivian embassy. Then he got into a crisis of conscience. He traveled to Machu Picchu , where he became aware of the power of his ancestors.

In his later works "La Revolución India" (1970), "Thesis India" (1971), "El Pensmiento Amautico" (1978) and in his last work "El Pensamiento Indio" (1991) he vehemently sat down with the history of his People apart and showed the superiority of Indian ideology and philosophy over the occidental way of thinking.

The Bolivian music group Ruphay took care of the translation of one of his main works from 1974, "América India y el Occidente", which was published in France in 1979 and in Germany in 1980 under the name - "America India and the Occident" .

His rich life's work was reprinted by his daughter Hilda.

literature

  • Elisabeth Steffens: Political and Religious Alterity as a Hermeneutic Challenge. The Indian peoples Abia Yala . Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86130-291-9 , pp. 108-115.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fausto Reinaga: America India and the Occident. Translated from the Spanish by Otto Weerth. Trikont, Munich 1980.
  2. ^ Esteban Ticona Alejo: La querella intelectual del quechuaymara Fausto Reinaga contra Fernando Diez de Medina. In: De Raíz Diversa, Vol. 1, No. 1, April-September 2014, p. 172.

This article is based on the article Fausto Reinaga ( memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer Wiki ( memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME Reinaga, Fausto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruphaj Katari (Indian name); Reinaga, José Félix (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION native american writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Macha , Bolivia
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1994