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- Title
Mariátegui y la poética de "tierra".
- Authors
READ, JUSTIN
- Abstract
This work pertains to the contradictions between historic materialism and mythical metaphysics in the prior essays of José Carlos Mariátegui. Despite the fact that social criticism of Mariátegui is almost always based on history and on the material, the critic suffered the official reproach of the Soviet International III for deviating too much from Stalinist orthodoxy. His deviation is largely noticed in the manner in which Mariátegui interprets the earth. Mariátegui sees a strong and organic connection between the earth and the social organization of the majority (indigenous) Peruvian population. Nevertheless, he also sees a national state whose relation to the earth is merely rhetorical. In the two cases, the earth becomes not only a conceptual precondition and rhetoric for national policy, but also a precondition that requires a quasi-aesthetic formalization in order to make itself a reality. The last works of Mariátegui, then, begin to resolve large methodological problems of Marxism in relation to the ‘’nature’’ of the earth within social criticism. Nevertheless, beyond the methodology it also opens the possibility of the need for poetics to give significance to the earth, and consequently significance to the oppressed people and their revolutionary potency.
- Subjects
PERU; SIETE ensayos de interpretacion de la realidad peruana (Book); INDIGENOUS peoples of Peru; MARIATEGUI, Jose Carlos, 1894-1930; COMMUNISM in literature; STALINISM; SOCIAL criticism in literature; METAPHYSICS in literature
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2010, Vol 44, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0034-818X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism