The poetics of transculturation: approaches to the narrative work of Macedonio Villafán

Authors

  • Vidal Guerrero Tamara Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo

Abstract

Based on the reflections of Ángel Rama in his foundational text La transculturación narrativa (1982), this article makes a critical revision of the narrative of the Peruvian writer Macedonio Villafán Broncano emphasizing the fictional construction, the transcultural operations and the complex processes of cultural resistance, experienced by Andean societies. It also establishes a link with Andean epistemology and socio-economic dynamics like reciprocity, complementarity, duality and cosmic vision of the Andean man within modernity. This shows that that in Macedonio Villafán narrative, a bicultural mixture of the ancestral Andean knowledge and the invading culture live dialectically together, constituting an eloquent example of transcultural literature.

Keywords:

Transculturation, Macedonio Villafán, Andean narrative, Andean epistemology