Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of World Languages and Literatures
First Advisor
Enrique Cortez
Date of Publication
Spring 6-19-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Spanish
Department
World Languages and Literatures
Language
English
Subjects
Gamaliel Churata (1894-1969). Pez de oro -- Criticism and interpretation, Indians of South America -- Peru -- History, Spanish language -- Andes Region, America -- Mythology -- Andes Region
DOI
10.15760/etd.5894
Physical Description
1 online resource (iv, 109 pages)
Abstract
This thesis explores the possible creation of a new categorization of American Literature as presented in the Andean novel El pez de oro: Retablos del Laykhakuy (1957) by Gamaliel Churata. In El pez de oro, Gamaliel Churata presents a strategy for the recuperation of native Andean cultural agency that enables the Andean subject to reclaim traces of their ancestral past under more verisimilar and verifiable terms. Churata argues that through a recuperation of native language and its infusion into the body of the major colonial language, Spanish, the Andean subject is equipped with a new culture producing tool that enables the recuperation of language, agency, history, and, ultimately, representation and inclusion within cultural and political institutional frameworks. By introducing his own function of bilingualism, vernacular language, and mythological infusions into the body of colonial letters, Gamaliel Churata is able to destabilize and disrupt colonial historical and textual authority to the point where the invented concept of America and the colonial product of American identity can be re-examined. Through this examination emerges a new option for the categorization of American identity as an aesthetic construct. Within this new categorization of aesthetic American identity, the Andean subject can begin his own process of self-identification through his native language toward the production of a future Andean American subject.
Rights
In Copyright. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/22722
Recommended Citation
McNabb, Stephen Delaney, "Shouts of the Khori-Challwa: Andean Mythological and Cosmological Reconsiderations of the American Identity in Gamaliel Churata’s El pez de oro" (2017). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4010.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.5894