Multilingualism and Modernity by Laura Lonsdale

Author:Laura Lonsdale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

[Of course this [use of Quechua] might make it difficult to translate, might possibly make it difficult for many people to grasp fully; but I don’t think that matters. […] I sense that a person with the capacity to write in nicely controlled, measured Spanish […] could not, however, describe with the necessary strength and vitality this world that is struggling into being, fighting a battle as violent as it is magnificent.]

This chapter will explore Arguedas’s attempt to reconcile those hostile linguistic modes in connection with the cultural challenges posed by modernisation, with particular attention to Yawar fiesta, in which the attempt at linguistic synthesis informs the whole symbolic and conceptual structure of the novel, and its cultural vision by extension; and Los ríos profundos, where the same becomes true of translation. Finally, it will reflect on what becomes of these two linguistic and conceptual possibilities in the face of both personal crisis and rampant modernisation at the end of the author’s life.

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