NCCLA Presentation

2016David N. Petro

MA Spanish Program: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Paper titleO“The decolonial bildungsroman: a theoretical perspective vis-à-vis Bakhtin’s chronotope in Deep Rivers (1956), by José María Arguedas”

Theoretical BasisO In essence, the paper analyzes the

intersections of time and space depicted in the boarding school Ernesto attends, the chicherías from the Huanupata neighborhood, the houses of the rich hacendados, and, finally, the caseríos where the tenant farmers reside. Said chronotopic analysis reveals only one suitable option for Ernesto: the ayllu, the decolonial space of memory transformed in the future.