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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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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spelling | doaj.art-a9a489c9a0b94ffcbc45d3407f8b47a22022-12-21T23:36:52ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología1900-54072011-42732012-12-0115111136La fisura irremediable: indígenas, regiones y nación en tres novelas de Mario Vargas LlosaMaría de las Mercedes Ortiz RodríguezIn 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.http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/242/index.php?id=242Mario Vargas LlosaPeruNationMoral TopographyIndigenous PeopleExclusion. |
spellingShingle | María de las Mercedes Ortiz Rodríguez 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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