Gamaliel Churata (1897-1969), the main promoter of Orkopata Group and director of the vanguard magazine Boletín Titikaka (1926-1930), was distinguished as indigenista fiction writer. This article compares two similar narrative sequences, “El kamilli”, 1929, and “Mama Kuka”, the central chapter of El pez de oro, 1957, to observe the crisis in the indigenismo proposal, both aesthetic practice and political discourse, based on understanding and incorporating the other to a homogeneous nation project. Against this model, in which he participated in the twenties, in his major work Churata chooses taking practices and structures of Andean thought to dislocate the literary discourse and compel, in permanent tension, to the reciprocity.Gamaliel Chu...