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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.
Contents
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
