Subalternity and society: Servants, careerists and marginalized in "A world for Julius" by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201201.003
Keywords: Subalternity, A World for Julius, domination, servants, stereotype

Abstract

An approach to the universe of servants in A world for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique shows that the dynamics of domination depicted in the novel can be better understood if we can prove that the universe from which these references causing exclusion and differentiation from the other are generated, is the universe of the own Dominator, who thus can only build that one who is different from himself with elements that are essential and that is why he is so configured. In this way the subaltern subject is known and visualized (stereotyped), and is marked through strategies such as stigmatization. In this article we try to identify how these two discursive procedures occur, and how their role in the novel has as a purpose to configure a universe marked by the degradation and the underestimation of the other.

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Author Biography

Jorge Valenzuela Garcés, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Doctor en Literatura Hispanoamericana por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Es profesor principal de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Sus principales intereses en investigación lo vinculan con la literatura peruana del siglo XIX, la narrativa hispanoamericana del posboom y la obra novelística de Mario Vargas Llosa, sobre la que ha publicado varios artículos.

Actualmente es director de la Unidad de Investigación de la Facultad de Letras en donde dirige el Taller de Narración y se desempeña como editor general de la revista Letras, dedicada a la investigación humanística.
En el ámbito de la creación literaria, Jorge Valenzuela es un destacado escritor perteneciente a la generación de narradores peruanos de los ochenta. Sus cuentos han sido premiados en concursos nacionales como el Premio COPÉ y el José María Arguedas. Ha publicado cuatro libros de cuentos Horas contadas (1988), La soledad de los magos (1994), La sombra interior (2006) y Juegos secretos (2011). Sus textos figuran en las principales antologías nacionales de cuento. Como crítico literario ha publicado un Manual de Literatura Hispanoamericana (2009) en dos volúmenes, El mundo de los clásicos (2010) y artículos de su especialidad en revistas peruanas y del extranjero.

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Published
2012-06-30
How to Cite
Valenzuela Garcés, J. (2012). Subalternity and society: Servants, careerists and marginalized in "A world for Julius" by Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 53(53), 43-77. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201201.003
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No 53 (2012): Enero - Junio
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Copyright (c) 2012 Jorge Valenzuela Garcés

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