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| Title: | Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative
: Social Conflict & Transculturation |
| Author: | Misha Kokotovic |
| ISBN: | 1845191846 : 9781845191849 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 152x229mm |
| Pages: | 290 |
| Weight: | .432 Kg. |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - March 2007 |
| List Price: | 19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general: Peru |
Peru is a nation built on the still extant colonial divide between indigenous peoples and the descendants of their Spanish conquerors, a divide that finds expression in the short stories, novels, and essays by renowned Peruvian writers such as José María Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa. The Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative explores debates over Peru's modernisation and cultural identity in post-1940 literature, exploring how Arguedas, Vargas Llosa, and others confronted challenges of language, style, and narrative form in their attempt to write across their nation's cultural divisions. It examines how modernisation affected the relationship between Peru's white elite and its indigenous majority, how historical change stimulated the emergence of new narrative techniques, and how these in turn made possible an understanding of the historical contexts in which they arose. Though Peru is its principal focus, the text engages with current studies of modernity at the postcolonial margins of the Western world by contributing to an understanding of the class and ethnic conflicts generated by rapid modernisation in culturally heterogeneous nations. The Colonial Divide will add to the growing body of critical literature on the ways in which modernity in formerly colonised nations such as Peru is inflected by the enduring legacies of colonialism.
Introduction; Modernity from the Margins: Narrative Form and Indigenous Agency in Broad and Alien is the World and Yawar Fiesta; From Development Theory to Pachakuity: José María Arguedas's Anthropology and Fiction in the 1950s; Between Feudalism and Imperialism: Indigenous Culture and Class Struggle in All the Worlds and Drums for Rancas; The Criollo City Transformed: Andean Migration in Urban Narrative; Mario Vargas Llosa Writes Of(f) the Native: Cultural Heterogeneity and Neoliberal Modernity; Epilogue - More than Skin Deep? Social Change in Contemporary Peru.
"Kokotovic has provided a comprehensive review of contemporary Peruvian literature -- a remarkable analysis and discussion of literary theories in the field of Latin American studies and beyond. The theoretical discussions he pursues will allow his readers a better understanding of how intellectuals and cultural subjects perform within and outside academic institutions." -- Professor Guido Podestá, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; and Director, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative strikes me as potentially the most concise and yet also the most clarifying, forthright and plainspoken study of modern Peruvian fiction in English... Kokotovic has clearly mastered the critical literature he seeks to reform. By valuing coherence over novelty, he has written an intellectually satisfying, useful and informative piece of literary history and criticism." -- Neil Larsen, Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Davis.
