Esta es nuestra tierra: Desposesion territorial y reindigenizacion en la literatura contemporanea en los Andes = This Is Our Land: Territorial Dispossession and Reindigenization in Contemporary Andean Literatures Marco Aviles

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Aviles, Marco, author.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Spanish and Portuguese Studies., degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American studies.

Literature.

Native studies.

0550.

0401.

0741.

Local Subjects:

Latin American studies.

Literature.

Native studies.

0550.

0401.

0741.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (265 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 86-12A

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2025

Language Note:

Spanish

Summary:

Esta disertacion examina como las literaturas andinas de origen quechua, aymara y mapuche contemporaneas representan el desplazamiento territorial masivo ("migracion") que estos pueblos indigenas experimentaron durante los siglos 20 y 21. Para este fin, analizo los textos de autores/as que descienden de hogares desplazados y trasplantados principalmente a las periferias de las capitales de Peru, Bolivia y Chile. Sostengo que autoras como Teresa Orbegoso, Quya Reyna y Daniela Catrileo, entre muchas, participan de procesos de toma de conciencia colectivos sobre su condicion como sujetos andinos, aymaras, mapuche crecidos en el desarraigo. A traves de este corpus diverso -entre poesia, cronica, novela, cuento, manifiestos artisticos-afloran los paisajes sociales que los sujetos desplazados han construido, como la ciudad aymara de El Alto o la diaspora mapuche en Santiago de Chile, y que son escenario de un proceso de politizacion al que denomino reindigenizacion. Este concepto permite entender de forma comparada la emergencia de subjetividades que interrogan practicas y paradigmas criollos - como el mestizaje- que hasta hoy promueven la desterritorializacion y eliminacion de las poblaciones indigenas; asimismo, facilita el analisis de las expresiones esteticas y politicas de una indigenidad expansiva, como la que permite a autores y autoras imaginar la reconstruccion de territorios indigenas y la proyeccion de sus pueblos y ciudades en el espacio y en el tiempo. Esta disertacion, contribuye con la critica literaria latinoamericana, al proporcionar un modelo de analisis comparado de las producciones indigenas contemporaneas, a partir del fenomeno territorial, y que se puede extrapolar a realidades fuera del contexto andino; interviene en los debates sobre Estado e indigenidad dentro de los estudios culturales y las ciencias sociales; y, finalmente, proporciona herramientas teoricas para posibilitar el dialogo entre las academias quechua, aymara y mapuche

This dissertation examines how contemporary Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche literatures represent the massive territorial displacement ("migration") experienced by indigenous populations during the 20th and 21st centuries. To this end, I analyze texts and other cultural products by authors who are part of transplanted households, mainly to the peripheries of the capitals of Peru, Bolivia and Chile. I claim that artists like Teresa Orbegoso, Quya Reyna, and Daniela Catrileo, among many, participate in processes of collective awareness of their condition as uprooted Andean, Aymara and Mapuche subjects. Through a wide corpus that includes poetry, chronicles, novels, short stories, and art manifestos, emerge new social and political landscapes, such as the Aymara city of El Alto or the Mapuche diaspora in Santiago de Chile, territories that are epicenters of a process of politicization that I call reindigenization. This concept brings attention to the emergence of subjectivities that interrogate the ideological violence embedded within hegemonic paradigms such as mestizaje, that to this day promote the deterritorialization and extinction of indigenous populations. It also facilitates the analysis of the aesthetic and political expressions of an expansive indigeneity, and to understand why so many authors are imagining the reconstruction of indigenous territories and the projection of their peoples and cities in space and time. This work contributes to Latin American Studies by providing a theoretical model for the analysis of contemporary indigenous productions based on the connections between aesthetics and territory. This approach can also be extrapolated to realities outside the Andean context. This dissertation intervenes in the debates on Nation-State building and indigeneity within Cultural Studies and Social Sciences; and offers theoretical tools to enable a dialogue between Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche academies

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.

Advisors: Casamayor-Cisneros, Odette Committee members: Beckman, Ericka; Ortiz Fernandez, Carolina

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2025

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798280757844

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