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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Main Author: | Maxwell Woods |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Spanish |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2024-12-01
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Series: | Mitologías Hoy |
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Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/1106 |
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