Inca Garcilaso De La Vega : Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Ward, Thomas

University of Nebraska Press（2026/04発売）

University of Nebraska Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781496244376
• DDC分類 985.05

Full Description

Thomas Ward examines Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's seventeenth-century work and how it influenced post-independence Peruvian literature in the nineteenth century. As literati struggled to define their fledgling Peruvian Republic, they found inspiration in the dual-heritage author Garcilaso de la Vega's previously banned work, Royal Commentaries.

Ward focuses on four authors who turned back to the colonial-era chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega as they synthesized Inkan tradition into modern national thinking: Juana Manuela Gorriti, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Manuel González Prada, and Ricardo Palma. An element of this cultural dynamic included gender awareness. At the time, women were accepted in the literary establishment much more than they would be in the following century, a fact Ward highlights in this study of the two most famous men authors and the two most famous women authors from this time period. In Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Ward brings gender and ethnic perspectives into a postcolonial discussion of a reality that was striving to establish "Peruvian" as a bona fide proper noun with substantive denotative and connotative meaning.

Contents

List of Illustrations
With Gratitude
Prologue
Introduction
1. An Inka Trail to Follow
2. Inkan Treasure, Inkan Resistance in Juana Manuela Gorriti's Fiction
3. Ricardo Palma's Surreptitious Inkan Engagement
4. Clorinda Matto de Turner and the Perils of the Assimilation Assumption
5. Manuel González Prada, a Discerning Reader of Sixteenth-Century Historiography
Conclusions
Appendix: The Forty Years War, Surging Inkanism, and the Decolonial Endeavor
Notes
References
Index