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- Title
MAÍZ, PAPAS Y CARROFLA: LA "IDENTIDAD" ALIMENTICIA DEL "INDIO" DE HUASIPUNGO.
- Authors
García, Gustavo V.
- Abstract
Literary criticism considers Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza as one of the primary texts of the Latin American social criticism novels because it denounces the exploitation of the Andean indigenous peoples of Ecuador. This judgement, however, ignores descriptions that show "Indians" as degraded, animal-like and lacking culture, especially when it is time to "devour" the "food" that is attributed to them: corn, low-quality potatoes and carrion. These textual ambiguities are in conflict with the social objectives of Huasipungo, since they prolong the vision of an inferior "Indian," lacking rights and therefore, an object of exploitation and "natural" extermination on the part of the landowning oligarchy in the name of "progress" for the nation.
- Subjects
ECUADOR; LITERARY criticism; HUASIPUNGO (Book); ICAZA, Jorge; EXPLOITATION of humans; INDIGENOUS rights; SOCIAL criticism
- Publication
Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0378-0473
- Publication type
Article