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Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
- Author(s): Antonio Cornejo Polar
- Translator(s): Lynda J. Jentsch
- Contributor(s): Jean Franco
- Published: 2013
- Pages: 232
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- Acknowledgments vii
- Foreword / Jean Franco ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. Voice and the Written Word in the Cajamarca "Dialogue" 13
- The Cajamarca Chroncile 13
- Rituals of Other Memories 31
- A Perhaps Impossible Reading 46
- Identity, Alterity, History 55
- 2. The Structures of Homogeneity: Discourses of Impossible Harmony 59
- Garcilaso: Harmony Rent Asunder 60
- Social Depictions of the Inca 66
- From Garcilaso to Palma: One Language for All? 71
- Concerning Patriotic Speeches and Proclamations 75
- In Fiction: Three Novels 82
- Cumandá 84
- Torn from the Nest 89
- Juan de la Rosa 94
- Celebrations 103
- 3. Stone of Boiling Blood: The Challenges of Modernization 113
- The Ambiguities of a New Language 114
- The Emergence of Dualism 126
- An Andean Modernity 131
- A Hobbled History: The Indigenist Novel 136
- The Subject Explodes 145
- Underground Voices 154
- Overture 165
- Notes 173
- Index 209
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- Jean Franco
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"In his last, indispensable book, the great Antonio Cornejo Polar takes readers on a fascinating journey through the plural worlds of Andean culture. This classic text, finally available in English, proves yet again why the author is widely considered a scholar who revolutionized Latin American literary criticism, providing an incisive interpretation of how Perú—and the rest of the continent—expresses itself with glorious complexity in its most significant works of the imagination."—Ariel Dorfman, author of Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
"Writing in the Air marks the beginning of a major shift in the conception of Latin American literature and culture. Antonio Cornejo Polar questioned the implicit equation of modernity/modernization, transculturation, literature, and the formation of the modern Latin American nation-state. The incorporation by the current governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru of strong, multicultural elements is related to the cultural paradigm elaborated in Writing in the Air. Cornejo Polar's arguments remain fresh and suggestive, and they are done justice in this excellent translation."—John Beverley, author of Latinamericanism after 9/11
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Description
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.
About The Author(s)
Antonio Cornejo Polar (1936–1997) was an internationally acclaimed Peruvian literary and cultural critic. He taught and served as Rector at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. Over the course of his career, he held visiting professorships in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Cornejo Polar wrote eleven books and founded and edited the well-respected journal Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinaomericana.
