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Writing in the Air

Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

By: Antonio Cornejo Polar

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Writing in the Air

Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

By: Antonio Cornejo Polar

Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of heterogeneity: the persistent interaction of cultural difference that cannot be resolved in synthesis. He reexamines encounters between Spanish and indigenous Andean cultural systems in the New World from the Conquest into the 1980s. Through innovative readings of narratives of conquest and liberation, homogenizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses, and contemporary Andean literature, he rejects the dominance of the written word over oral literature. Cornejo Polar decenters literature as the primary marker of Latin American cultural identity, emphasizing instead the interlacing of multiple narratives that generates the heterogeneity of contemporary Latin American culture.

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Duke University Press

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0822391910

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9780822391913

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Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

By: Antonio Cornejo Polar

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Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

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0822354322

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Incan Insights

El Inca Garcilaso's Hints to Andean Readers

By: José Antonio Mazzotti

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El Inca Garcilaso's Hints to Andean Readers

By: José Antonio Mazzotti

Examines the "Royal Commentaries" of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and sets forth a new and alternative reading of this foundational text, paying close attention to the indigenous sources and Andean resonance of the work.

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Iberoamericana Editorial

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8484893200

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9788484893202

Torn from the Nest

By: Clorinda Matto de Turner

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Torn from the Nest

By: Clorinda Matto de Turner

Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures the vices and virtues of a people, censuring the former with the appropriate moral lesson and paying its homage of admiration to the latter. In this tragic tale, Clorinda Matto de Turner explores the relationship between the landed gentry and the indigenous peoples of the Andean mountain communities. While unfolding as a love story rife with secrets and dashed hopes, Torn from the Nest in fact reveals a deep and destructive class disparity, and criticizes the Catholic clergy for blatant corruption. When Lucia and Don Fernando Marin settle in the small hamlet of Killac, the young couple become advocates for the local Indians who are being exploited and oppressed by their priest and governor and by the gentry allied with these two. Considered meddling outsiders, the couple meet violent resistance from the village leaders, who orchestrate an assault on their house and pursue devious and unfair schemes to keep the Indians subjugated. As a romance blossoms between the a member of the gentry and the peasant girl that Lucia and Don Fernando have adopted, a dreadful secret prevents their marriage and brings to a climax the novel's exposure of degradation: they share the same father--a parish priest. Torn from the Nest was first published in Peru in 1889 amidst much enthusiasm and outrage. This fresh translation--the first since 1904--preserves one of Peru's most distinctive and compelling voices.

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Oxford University Press

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0199939012

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