Capital Putamadre: Social Abstraction and Literary Representation in César Vallejo and José María Argueda

Authors

  • José Cerna-Bazán Carleton College

Keywords:

Vallejo, Arguedas, Social Representation

Abstract

The author believes that the appearance of the pelican and the anchovy as major figures in these texts allowed Vallejo and Arguedas to thematize an encounter of the “local” and the “global” in an extremely concrete manner, creating the conditions to see in such an encounter the interplay between the particular of individual life and the general determinations of social life. The author argues that this was possible because those small bodies played a pivotal role in the economy and the society of Vallejo’s and Arguedas’s lifetimes, and therefore constituted critical points to focalize the fundamental incongruity in society that arises from the uneven development of capitalism, particularly in a peripheral country like Perú.

Author Biography

José Cerna-Bazán, Carleton College

José Cerna-Bazán es oriundo de Chachapoyas (Perú). Realizó sus estudios e investigaciones de lingüística amerindia en la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Perú) y obtuvo el doctorado en literatura latinoamericana en la Universidad de Minnesota. Además de artículos sobre narrativa y lírica latinoamericanas, ha publicado el libro Sujeto a cambio, sobre la obra de César Vallejo. Ha sido profesor en la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, la Universidad de Minnesota, la Universidad de Texas en Austin, y actualmente es catedrático en Carleton College.

Published

2006-09-01

How to Cite

Cerna-Bazán, J. (2006). Capital Putamadre: Social Abstraction and Literary Representation in César Vallejo and José María Argueda. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(1), 1–22. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/231

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