Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | America: The Tale of a Continent
Chapter | Autotraducción, poder y modernidad

Autotraducción, poder y modernidad

El caso de José María Arguedas

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the self-translation of the Peruvian author José María Arguedas, by analysing the poem “Jetman, Haylli / Oda al jet”, written in Quechua and translated into Spanish by the same author and compiled in Katatay / Temblar (1972). Arguedas, considering self-translation as a tool to translate the social and cultural heterogeneity of America, tells the image of a continent that demands a non-hierarchical dialogue with ‘the West’. Self-translation is a form of cultural resistance against the hierarchies of power and representation according to which the indigenous would lose their ‘authenticity’ by coming into contact with modernity.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Feb. 6, 2019 | Accepted: March 5, 2019 | Published May 14, 2019 | Language: es

Keywords Quechua • José María Arguedas • Power • Modernity • Self-translation

Copyright © 2019 Paola Mancosu . This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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