Heraldos del Pachakuti

Samenvatting

A partir de la pentalogía de Scorza y su puesta en evidencia de las grietas que recorren el concepto unificante de nación peruana, Heraldos del Pachakuti revisa las nociones de Historia y los símbolos asociados a la idea de patria en el Perú. Las características fantásticas de El Nictálope, El Invisible y El Jinete Insomne se interpretan en tanto símbolos que marcan las fases de una toma de conciencia colectiva sobre la necesidad de cambio. La oscuridad, la invisibilidad y el insomnio -atributos tradicionalmente negativos que resemantiza la narrativa de Scorza- devienen señas de identidad para un mundo diferente que desde su otredad desafía a quienes lo definen y ... viene a mostrarles que, sin él, resultan incompletos. Adriana Churampi Ramírez es profesora de Literatura Latinoamericana en la Universidad de Leiden. Se doctoró con un análisis de la pentalogía de Manuel Scorza y se ha especializado en la (de)construcción de lo indígena en novelas, documentos coloniales e incluso comics. Entre 2005 y 2008 realizó un postdoctorado en la Facultad de Arqueología del Caribe, analizando descripciones de los taínos en documentos coloniales hispanos. English Abstract Manuel Scorza's novels show the enormous gaps that characterize the concept of Peruvian unity. Heraldos del Pachakuti's analysis concentrates on two basic notions of Peru's representation: history and national symbols. The so called fantastic features of the protagonists can be interpret as symbols of a proposal to improve the indigenous situation. They describe an oppressed people changing the negative stereotype of its existence transforming it into their strongest weapon. Darkness, invisibility, insomnia, synonyms for the underworld and the unknown, function as identifying characteristics of a different world, defined as the place of the other. The hegemonic world is in this way disputed by an indigenous life style and thought. Dr. Adriana. I. Churampi Ramírez is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature. Her dissertation (2004) to obtain her PhD researched the socio-political impact of the writer Manuel Scorza who portrayed the epics of the Peruvian Indian upheavals during the sixties. Her actual research concentrates on the study of written materials depicting the indigenous population from the Andes region, mainly novels but also images and even comics. The deconstruction of the strategies in the process of building the image of "the Indian" is the key line in her analyses. In that way Churampi's research deals with concepts such as identity and representation, key themes in Andean modernization processes as well as in Andean countries' bursting conflicts.