Una poética de la sensibilidad. José María Arguedas y la invención de la cultura andina

Authors

  • Martín Oyata University of Vermont

Keywords:

José María Arguedas, race, class, Romanticism

Abstract

This article posits that Andean culture properly emerged as a literary and intellectual problem in Peru with José María Arguedas, as his work marked a departure from the issues of race and class that had been the focus of classic Indigenism. This turn, realized in his novel Yawar Fiesta (1941), is defined by a poetics of sensibility akin to Romanticism in which culture becomes a space that preserves a group’s identity. In conceiving of sensibility as a collective faculty that creates and maintains a sense of belonging, Arguedas is able to enclose the highland Indians in a hermetic space, thus bringing to the fore the question of the viability of Andean culture that was unknown until then.

Author Biography

Martín Oyata, University of Vermont

Martín Oyata is an assistant professor of Spanish American Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont. His doctoral dissertation at Cornell University explored the formation of a language of culture and cultural identity in twentieth-century Peruvian literature, with special reference to the work of José María Arguedas. He is co-editor, with Francisco Ramírez Santacruz, of El terreno de los días: Homenaje a José Revueltas (2007), and is credited with Spanish renditions of articles by Cornelius Castoriadis, Hubert Dreyfus, and Martha Nussbaum, among others. He is currently studying the ways through which writers, both in Spanish America and Europe, have reinvented Amerindian societies as paradigms of liberty and political virtue.

Published

2014-01-31

How to Cite

Oyata, M. (2014). Una poética de la sensibilidad. José María Arguedas y la invención de la cultura andina. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 11(2), 76–113. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/771

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