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