Debris and Poetry: A Critique of Violence and Race in the Peruvian Eighties
By turning the figure of the colonial chronicler Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala into an indigenous migrant during the tumultuous nineteen eighties in the poem “His Body Was an Island of Debris” (1987), Domingo de Ramos critiqued the transhistorical nature of colonialism, as it manifests through the dis...
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| Language: | English |
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Latin American Research Commons
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Latin American Literary Review |
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| Online Access: | https://account.lalrp.net/index.php/lasa-j-lalr/article/view/158 |