Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos"
This article explores the socio-political function of mythical representations of urban space in Latin American literature. Based on an analysis of the first chapter of José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958), I argue that myth is a narrative technology of collective memory that binds toget...
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This article explores the socio-political function of mythical representations of urban space in Latin American literature. Based on an analysis of the first chapter of José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958), I argue that myth is a narrative technology of collective memory that binds together a regional community through the practice of reproducing shared narratives of the urban meaning of a uniting city. More precisely, I look at the function of the myth of Cuzco as the “center of the world” in the opening chapter of Arguedas’s novel.
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| spelling | doaj-art-2c856516ab224e52b32ddd8ac407eda02025-01-18T00:49:34ZspaUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMitologías Hoy2014-11302024-12-013110.5565/rev/mitologias.1106Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos"Maxwell Woods This article explores the socio-political function of mythical representations of urban space in Latin American literature. Based on an analysis of the first chapter of José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958), I argue that myth is a narrative technology of collective memory that binds together a regional community through the practice of reproducing shared narratives of the urban meaning of a uniting city. More precisely, I look at the function of the myth of Cuzco as the “center of the world” in the opening chapter of Arguedas’s novel. https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/1106mythcollective memoryliterary urban studiesCuzcoArguedas |
| spellingShingle | Maxwell Woods Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" Mitologías Hoy myth collective memory literary urban studies Cuzco Arguedas |
| title | Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" |
| title_full | Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" |
| title_fullStr | Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" |
| title_short | Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" |
| title_sort | myth as urban collective memory a reading of jose maria arguedas s representation of cuzco in los rios profundos |
| topic | myth collective memory literary urban studies Cuzco Arguedas |
| url | https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/1106 |
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