Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-228).

The production of dissimilar and contradictory literary discourses which originates in Latin America during the Conquest and Colonial periods has traced grave problems for literary criticism. Until the 1950's and 1960's, positivist historians and literary scholars tried to affix and evaluate this period of transatlantic transfer and acculturation without satisfactory results. The fundamental fact that had been slantedly presented by positivist historians and literary critics was the cultural shock produced by the invasion and colonization process. This cultural shock did not result in an ideal synthesis since the cultural foundations of indigenous societies were destroyed. The colonial regime incorporated advantageous aspects of the indigenous societies for its own growth and reorganized them in a disconcerting fashion for the colonized. One of the major changes to which the indigenous population was subjected was the implant of a new language. As one can clearly expect, the linguistic transference in itself produced a severe scission at the cultural level, not only from a literary perspective but from a political one as well. Semeiotically, one can propose that the sign of the new society is linguistic disjunction and that a consequence of this phenomenon is, in turn, social disjunction. The study, from an interdisciplinary perspective, analyzes the acculturation process through a close look at traditionally considered "social" oral poetic tradition and texts brought by the Spanish to America. The study of the "social" poetry in Spanish from the area today known as Peru demonstrates how these poetic discourses contribute to the acculturation process instead of fulfilling the denunciatory function of the socially oriented discourse. Ultimately, this study intends to divulge how through the use of oral and erudite European poetic tradition, the Spanish founded and established a dependent culture in the area we know as Peru and how this dependency permeates the poetry written in this area from the Sixteenth until the Twentieth century. In the Twentieth century, however, the study demonstrates through a close look at Antonio Cisneros' poetry how the contemporary Peruvian poet has taken conscience of dependency and "rewrites" Peruvian culture through truly social poetic discourse.

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The aim of this thesis is to study a hitherto neglected pre-Columbian Peruvian artefact: the pottery figurine. The term figurine refers to a human representation, which is not a vessel or part of a vessel. Included are also ceramic litters carrying figurines. The material recorded from collections and/or publications, constitutes a Corpus of 1571 specimens from the Central Coast of Peru, dating from the Preceramic to the Inca period. The figurines are classified into groups, using stylistic, iconographic and technical criteria, with recourse to known pottery styles. On the basis of this classification, the figurine groups have been used to throw light on cultural processes in the area. It has thus been possible: • to trace outside influences—like the presence of Nascoid figurines in the Rimac valley at the end of the Early Intermediate Period; • to establish stylistic units, hitherto only guessed at in the published literature--like the existence of an Ancón sub-style at the end of the Middle Horizon and the early part of the Late Intermediate Period, or a Chillón sub-style towards the end of the Late Intermediate Period; • to confirm and illustrate various previous models—like the nature of the interaction between sectors of the Central Coast during the three Horizon phases. In addition the figurines are examined in relation to figurines from other areas of Peru. An attempt has also been made to establish the possible functions of the figurines through a detailed description of all available contexts, a thorough search of the chroniclers for relevant references to such objects and some research into comparative ethnographic data.

Thesis (M.A.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Spanish." Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-94).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

archives@tulane.edu / The Internal War in Peru (1980-2000) had as its political actors the Peruvian army and police forces against the self-called guerrilla groups Sendero Luminoso (SL) and the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) that sought to destabilize the institutional order. One of the most affected areas, mainly by SL, was the Central and South Andean regions. The inhabitants of this region, considered one of the poorest and most abandoned by the State, received the deepest impact from the violence of the crossfire and also participated in their own defense through the “rondas campesinas”. There is a novelistic corpus and an important criticizing presence that has narrated and analyzed from different perspectives the problem of violence of those years. This dissertation examines the problem of the representation of the Andean subject in the narrative of the Internal War. I propose that, through updates to the ghost or the ghost condition, it is intended to present a vision of the Andean world in the first novels; the ghostly Andean subject establishes a search and a social demand. Likewise, a criticism of the homogenizing vision of anthropology can be seen, through the use of the ghost, in the first novels, and the invisibility of the Andean subject in the most recent ones. This work is based on four novels: Adiós, Ayacucho by Julio Ortega, Candela quemaluceros by Félix Huamán Cabrera, Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro by Iván Thays, and La hora azul by Alonso Cueto. In addition, we will dialogue with the Informe de la Comisión Investigadora de los sucesos de Uchuraccay, a commission headed by Mario Vargas Llosa and a report also written by him. / 1 / Carlos Capellino Fuentes

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