Synopses & Reviews
Review
A crucial result of Feldmans reading of Arguedas as a political philosopher is a strong and entirely necessary argument about the need to revise the idea of the register, medium, and genre through which political thought is produced; the proposition, in other words, that we need to take seriously the idea that poesis is a necessary and significant register for theorization.”
Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, University of California-Irvine
Review
With this book Irina Alexandra Feldman proves that José María Arguedass Todas las sangres is not just an epic novel. She applies contemporary political theory and shows that Todas las sangres is a thoughtful and pliant blueprint for a plurinational sovereignty still unattained and misunderstood in Arguedass beloved Peru, but not so unlike the plurinational state inaugurated in Bolivia in 2009.”
Thomas Ward, Loyola University Maryland
Synopsis
Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas (19111969) was a highly conflicted figure. As a mestizo, both European and Quechua blood ran through his veins and into his cosmology and writing. Arguedass Marxist influences and ethnographic work placed him in direct contact with the subalterns he would champion in his stories. His exposés of the conflicts between Indians and creoles, and workers and elites were severely criticized by his contemporaries. In Rethinking Community from Peru, Irina Alexandra Feldman examines the deep political connotations and current relevance of Arguedass fiction to the Andean region.
About the Author
Irina Alexandra Feldman is assistant professor of Spanish at Middlebury College.