β Scribed by Antonio Cornejo Polar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of heterogeneity: the persistent interaction of cultural difference that cannot be resolved in synthesis. He reexamines encounters between Spanish and indigenous Andean cultural systems in the New World from the Conquest into the 1980s. Through innovative readings of narratives of conquest and liberation, homogenizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses, and contemporary Andean literature, he rejects the dominance of the written word over oral literature. Cornejo Polar decenters literature as the primary marker of Latin American cultural identity, emphasizing instead the interlacing of multiple narratives that generates the heterogeneity of contemporary Latin American culture.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jean Franco
Introduction
Chapter 1: Voice and the Written Word in the Cajamarca βDialogueβ
The Cajamarca Chronicle
Rituals of Other Memories
A Perhaps Impossible Reading
Identity, Alterity, History
Chapter 2: The Sutures of Homogeneity: Discourses of Impossible Harmony
Garcilaso: Harmony Rent Asunder
Social Depictions of the Inca
From Garcilaso to Palma: One Language for All?
Concerning Patriotic Speeches and Proclamations
In Fiction: Three Novels
CumandΓ‘
Torn from the Nest
Juan de la Rosa
Celebrations
Chapter 3: Stone of Boiling Blood: The Challenges of Modernization
The Ambiguities of a New Language
The Emergence of Dualisms
An Andean Modernity
A Hobbled History: The Indigenist Novel
The Subject Explodes
Underground Voices
Overture
Notes
Index
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