Antonio Cornejo Polar

Writing in the Air

Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
Übersetzer: Jentsch, Lynda J

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Produktbeschreibung

A classic work by the Peruvian cultural and literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar (1936-97), Writing on Air is Cornejo Polar's fullest elaboration of "heterogeneity," the concept for which he is best known.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354178
• ISBN-10: 0822354179
• Artikelnr.: 36608811

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Antonio Cornejo Polar

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword / Jean Franco ix
Introduction 1
1. Voice and the Written Word in the Cajamarca "Dialogue" 13
The Cajamarca Chroncile 13
Rituals of Other Memories 31
A Perhaps Impossible Reading 46
Identity, Alterity, History 55
2. The Structures of Homogeneity: Discourses of Impossible Harmony 59
Garcilaso: Harmony Rent Asunder 60
Social Depictions of the Inca 66
From Garcilaso to Palma: One Language for All? 71
Concerning Patriotic Speeches and Proclamations 75
In Fiction: Three Novels 82
Cumandá 84
Torn from the Nest 89
Juan de la Rosa 94
Celebrations 103
3. Stone of Boiling Blood: The Challenges of Modernization 113
The Ambiguities of a New Language 114
The Emergence of Dualism 126
An Andean Modernity 131
A Hobbled History: The Indigenist Novel 136
The Subject Explodes 145
Underground Voices 154
Overture 165
Notes 173
Index 209