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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega : literary genealogies of an Indigenous intellectual in nineteenth-century Peru /

A thorough examination of four famous Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work, each contributing to the development of a new decolonial literary tendency, Inkanism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Thomas, 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2026].
Subjects:
Vega, Garcilaso de la, > 1503-1536 > Influence.
Gorriti, Juana Manuela, > 1816-1892.
Palma, Ricardo, > 1833-1919.
Matto de Turner, Clorinda, > 1852-1909.
González Prada, Manuel, > 1844-1918.
Peruvian literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Peruvian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Peru > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. An Inka Trail to Follow
  • 2. Inkan Treasure, Inkan Resistance in Juana Manuela Gorriti's Fiction
  • 3. Ricardo Palma's Surreptitious Inkan Engagement
  • 4. Clorinda Matto de Turner: When the Walls of the Assimilation Assumption Came Tumbling Down
  • 5. Garcilaso and González Prada: Recovering Sixteenth-Century Historiography.