Abstract
This article traces the relationship between epistemology, aesthetics and non-anthropocentric thought in José María Arguedas's texts "Orovilca" and The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below. In "Orovilca" the main characters create a fictional-textual ritual, linking magic Andean thought and a system of poetic analogies, and provide nature with a social agency. In The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below, Arguedas imagines an animistic shamanic ritual in which he blurs the ontological divide between humans, animals, and machines. Arguedas uses this ritual to challenge the cosmopolitan aesthetics of the Latin American Boom and to destabilize the ideological grounds of global extractive capitalism. Both texts foresaw the possibility of future post-anthropocentric aesthetics and epistemologies.
| Original language | Spanish |
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| Pages (from-to) | 213-241 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana RCLL Tufts University |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 89 |
| State | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- animism
- shamanism and literature
- Amerindian Perspectivism
- Ecocriticism
- nature and culture
- José María Arguedas
- Philippe Descola
- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Research output
- 1 Thesis doctorate
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Narrativas inhumanas: Capitalismo extractivo, delirios animistas y representación textual en José Eustasio Rivera, José María Arguedas y Juan Cárdenas
Translated title of the contribution :Inhuman Narratives: Extractive Capitalism, Animist Delusions, and Textual Representation in José Eustasio Rivera, José María Arguedas, and Juan Cardenas Research output: Thesis › Thesis doctorate
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