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

• Martín Oyata ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Vermont

     University of Vermont

     City of Burlington, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 11, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Invierno 2014), págs. 76-113
• Idioma: español
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  • 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.