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examine José María Arguedas’s speech, “No Soy Un Aculturado,” as emblematic of the Marxist turmoil of twentieth century Peru and a microcosm of socio-political issues that concern populations of developing countries throughout the Americas not only during the years he wrote, but now as well. Furthermore, Arguedas’s work has had a greater impact sociologically than the writings of other more internationally recognized authors from his region.
What is the ancestral relation between Arguedas, previous, and subsequent developments in the Marxist and Andean versions of struggle? What is the nature of “revolution” in Arguedas speech? What are its tasks, its political subjects, and its antagonists in the speech? The constants that determine Arguedean thought about radical social change in all of his novelistic production and link it to the concept of social upheaval elaborated by José Carlos Mariátegui, inquire how the concept of this struggle is modified and refined in Arguedas’ last novel, “El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.”