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Item type:Publication, The two narrative voices in “La agonía de Rasu-Ñiti”(Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 2024-01-01)The short-story “La agonía de Rasu-Ñiti” [The Agony of Rasu-Ñiti], by José María Arguedas —matured during eight years and written in two days according to a letter sent by the writer to the ethnohistorian John Murra—, shows, among its main features, a narrative voice with very special characteristics. In this paper, we pay attention to the resources with which Arguedas constructs this voice and, based on a proposal made by Zevallos Aguilar (2009), we conclude that we are indeed dealing with two narrators. From a narratological point of view, we find that both voices are distinguished by the narrative level in which they are located and by their relationship with the story, as well as by their knowledge, their temporal orientation and their ethno-cultural identification. In the end, we wonder about the meaning of this combination of options in the framework of Arguedas’s production. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Life Histories with Members of Indigenous Peoples: Methodological Remarks Based on Two Recent Books(Ibero - Amerikanisches Institut, 2023-07-13)In this paper we aim to identify some relevant methodological traits of life histories - conceived both as a research framework and as a textual outcome - with members of indigenous peoples. In order to achieve this goal, we discuss the concepts of ‘narrator’ and ‘narrataire’, the researchers’ stance, and the transformative potential of life histories, as well as some ethical and political issues that these processes and textual productions raise. We depart from the elaboration of the life histories of a multilingual teacher from the Peruvian Amazon and of a historical leader of the Asháninka society: a bilingual book in Spanish and Bora, the first language of the teacher (Díaz Peña 2017), and a book in Spanish and Asháninka, the first language of the historical leader (Casanto Shingari 2022). We state that a core methodological feature of working out life histories with indigenous peoples is the need for clearly setting out throughout the process the various asymmetries and differences between the narrator and the narrataires. A remarkable asymmetry in the experiences we assess pertains to the linguistic market (Bourdieu 2008; 2002), and it emerges from the different social values assigned to the various codes downplayed in the process of producing the life histories and in their textual outcome.