Abstract

SANJINES C., Javier. Silences in La chaskañawi: Re-reading the 'costumbrista' novel. Tinkazos [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.39, pp.115-134. ISSN 1990-7451.

Should criticism study "costumbrismo", the literary interpretation of local customs, as simply an objective representation of everyday life? Writing against the grain of what normally passes as socio-historical approaches to literature, this essay, dedicated to uncover the intricacies of La chaskañawi, affirms that behind every event set in place by the plot of the novel a savage is silently hidden, watching overthe frontier of civilized existence. This essay attempts to explain why European savages haunt the apparently progressive content of the novel, and how they relate to the historical context and to the rise of the "costumbrista" novel.

Keywords : socio-historical criticism; representation; figuration; fabulation; mutation; luropean savage; hybrid (cholo) identity; state of nature.

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