El (inconstante y ambivalente) discurso sobre la diferencia india/indígena y la afiliación indoamericanista de Francisco René Santucho en el relato autobiográfico de Witold Gombrowicz

Francisco René Santucho was born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in 1925 and disappeared in Tucuman in 1975, in the context preceding the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). In the middle of the twentieth century he presented himself questioning publicly the hegemonic identity statement in the Eurocentric country. Countercurrently, he held on the discourses which reclaimed the pre-Hispanic past of the nation. This article identifies and analyzes forms, moments, and spaces of representation of Francisco René Santucho’s discourse on Indian/indigenous difference and Indian-American affiliation in the fragments of autobiographical account which Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz created during his stay in Argentina. This article is an approximation to the social uses of race and ethnicity in the immediate sociability, as well as in a broader social background, that were formed around Santucho’s figure in Santiago del Estero in the late 1950s.