La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa

In his novels The Green House (1966), The Storyteller (1989) and Death in the Andes (1996), Mario Vargas Llosa reinforces the dominant visions in which the Peruvian Andes and jungle are portrayed as the realms of barbarism and savagery respectively—as opposed to the Coast, which is considered the ci...

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Main Author: María de las Mercedes Ortiz Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2012-12-01
Series:Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
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Online Access:http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/242/index.php?id=242
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description In his novels The Green House (1966), The Storyteller (1989) and Death in the Andes (1996), Mario Vargas Llosa reinforces the dominant visions in which the Peruvian Andes and jungle are portrayed as the realms of barbarism and savagery respectively—as opposed to the Coast, which is considered the civilized center of the nation. I discuss how he resuscitates topics like cannibalism and the extirpation of idolatries in colonial times, clearly employing the linear evolutionism of the nineteenth century. He uses these familiar tropes and images to characterize, as did his predecessors, indigenous people as savages, cannibals and pagans who constitute an obstacle for the development of Peru in a neoliberal and global world.
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La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Nation
Moral Topography
Indigenous People
Exclusion.
title La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa
title_full La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa
title_fullStr La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa
title_full_unstemmed La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa
title_short La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa
title_sort la fisura irremediable indigenas regiones y nacion en tres novelas de mario vargas llosa
topic Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Nation
Moral Topography
Indigenous People
Exclusion.
url http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/242/index.php?id=242
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