The Quichuas, comprised of the Otavalo, Salasacas, Canaris and Saraguros, reside in the Andes and Austral Mountains. The Tagaeri, relatives of the Huaorani, compose another group residing in this area but this was declared as "intangible" by the State, in respect to their desire to live isolated from civilization. The most well-known Amazonian indigenous nationalities are: Huaorani, Achuar, Shuar, Cofan, Siona-Sequoia and Záparo Shiwiar. In its three continental regions, 15 indigenous nationalities coexist with different traditions and worldviews. Ethnically, its culture is defined by the presence of mestizos, indigenous, Afro-Ecuadorian and white, while geographically this is reflected throughout the different regions, all rich with specificities.
In order to analyse Ecuador’s culture, both its ethnic and regional diversity should be taken into consideration.
In the Amazon, there are more than 600000 inhabitants, while 17000 reside in the Galapagos Islands. On the Pacific Coast, the figure is closer to six million. From this total, more than five and a half million live in the Sierra. Ultimately, my reading of Palacio's texts in light of visual technology leads to a reflection on what literature can gain from visual narrative recourses.Ecuador is a multi-ethnic and multicultural country. Both texts are thus invested in exploring the complementarity of visual technology and literature as two narrative modes that fragment the fleeting experience of modernity. In "Un hombre muerto a puntapiés" (1927), photography, the crónica y and ethical acts of reading, interpreting, and narrating become instruments for the narrator to solve the murder of Ramirez whose death is presumed to be caused by being kicked to death due to his homosexuality. In his novella Débora (1927), Palacio employs the language of cinema (e.g., the cinematograph, the cinema, references to film studios, and film plots) to present a story which details the protagonists fascination with films and foregrounds the narrators self-reflexivity about the craft of storytelling. This current study explores the relationship between visual technology (cinema and photography) and a metanarrative preoccupation with the craft of literary narration in two texts by Pablo Palacio (Ecuador, 1906-47).
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