This dissertation focuses on the radical originality of an avant-garde indigenista little magazine, Boletín Titikaka, published in Puno, Peru, between 1926 and 1930. I discuss the novelty of Boletín Titikaka in Peruvian and Latin American print culture, highlighting the vanguardist publishing strategies of its editors, including design and channels of distribution, which were key to their political goals of critique and democratization of culture. In doing so, I propose a new reading of the significance of this periodical for an understanding of emerging figures of intellectuals in the first quarter of the 20th century. Indigenous subjects attained new forms of agency as writers, printers, visual artists, and illustrators. Published in Puno, far away from Lima, and with limited resources, I assess the singularity of Boletín Titikaka vis-a-vis the urban and metropolitan avant-gardes in Brazil and Argentina. My research contributes to the study of the role of avant-garde small cultural magazines published in the 1920s in Latin America. Studies about Boletín Titikaka have typically focused on the figure of its editor in chief, Gamaliel Churata, an important Indigenista figure, renowned for his magnum opus, El Pez de Oro (1957). My research focuses on this small magazine as an object of study in itself. This study allows me to revise, confirm or contest certain hypotheses that have been maintained about this magazine based on the observation of its editorial strategies.
