A Historical Review with Healing Powers. Mariátegui Read from the Andean Perspective of José Luis Ayala

Authors

  • Raquel Alfaro University of North Carolina at Pembroke

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2015.131

Keywords:

Chaco War, historical healing, long memory, short memory, yatiri

Abstract

This article deals with José Luis Ayala’s book Mariátegui y la guerra del Chaco [Mariátegui and the Chaco War, 2014]. This writer and yatiri confronts us with an unclassifiable final product which goes beyond the guidelines of traditional literary genres. The article discusses the relationship between the textual peculiarity of Ayala’s book and its singular purpose: the healing of our historical understanding of the Chaco War. Specifically, the healing of historical trauma left in the wake of the War.

Author Biography

Raquel Alfaro, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Assistant Professor at the Deparment of English, Theatre & Foreign Languages.

Published

2016-03-17