The to-and-for of words. Poetry and myth in Vargas Vicuña's work

Keywords: Vargas Vicuña, orality, Andean animism, mixed-raced vision

Abstract

Many critics have acknowledged the stylistic and technical skills in Eleodoro Vargas Vicuña’s narrative, such as the orality of his characters, narrative fragmentation and polyphonic voices that describes his plot. There have been suggestions that the Indigenism of Vargas Vicuña renewed the pro-Indian narrative universe, but there are few concerns about the links of his story with his poetic production. Our research aims to establish which type of narrator rules his work. We will also show how his characters start showing through a particular language in order to reveal a vision of reality strongly linked to that of his poetic work, a transculturalized and mixed-raced discursive formation, but whose roots are related to his first reference: the mythical Andean perspective.

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Author Biographies

Manuel Larrú Salazar, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Docente del Departamento Académico de Literatura de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Especialista en tradición oral andina y literatura quechua. Dirige el Seminario de Literatura Quechua y Orales del Perú. Ha publicado varios artículos en revistas especializadas como Letras, Escritura y pensamiento, Lhymen, San Marcos, y otras publicaciones internacionales relacionadas al universo andino. 

Sara Viera Mendoza, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Magister en Literatura con mención en Estudios Culturales por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Licenciada en Literatura y Licenciada en Educación por la misma universidad. Ha publicado los libros Entre la voz y el silencio. Las hijas de la diosa Kavillaca (2012) y Desde la otra orilla. La voz afrodescendiente (2013). Colaboró con artículos en las revistas Escritura y pensamiento, Ínsula Barataria, Ukupacha, Tema y variaciones de Literatura (México), entre otras.

Published
2014-06-30
How to Cite
Larrú Salazar, M., & Viera Mendoza, S. (2014). The to-and-for of words. Poetry and myth in Vargas Vicuña’s work. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 57(57), 155-184. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201401.005
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