Peruvian writer and anthropologist José María Arguedas, trying in any way reflect the Quechua people and mestizo in English. We know that this great writer is bilingual, and at all times he was aware of both languages who ran (Castilian and Quechua), but always had a special affection for the indigenous language, regarded himself as their mother tongue.
all know that the country we live in Quechua is a language that has been neglected, and above all is the English. Arguedas often reflected on this linguistic conflict there, because for us to handle that language is easy for us to express ourselves, to express what we feel, what we think ... but Quechua speakers for what? Have we thought about how that person feels unable to express his inner world in a language he does not know? So for Arguedas it would have been ideal to say things in American Indian language - which has been minoritised for ourselves - but also knew it could not be so for the same thing as "a linguistic power ISTIC "has it in English, then its purpose was to find expression in English, but that in turn has as its base Quechua. Thus Arguedas reveals in his book "Water" to a mongrel that forces need to learn Castilian, and could not find another way out.
He is somehow make known to others that just as there are great books that are written in English, in the same way (or maybe even better) can be given in the Quechua language, which no longer follow viewed as a "rarity" since the end of the day is our base language used by our ancestors, the Incas. And now some even feel embarrassed him, but to no fault of ours, as belonging to one nation, no discrimination between ourselves. For example, if a person comes from the mountains to the coast we make fun of his speech, as the coastal We believe the "superior" and those who know more than those "cholitos" as some call them, when in fact we are the ignorant in not knowing that we pronounce words wrong and that is ok with us but actually not. One could even pass (should not be) that a foreign person to discriminate against anyone on our Paisy which is Quechua-speaking, but among ourselves? It seems to me absurd, rather because it has a union between members of the same country, there is a greater distance between the members that make up the three regions of Peru. If we continue like this, there will never be progress in our Paisy yet we keep complaining that all the time why we in the same situation as the answer is before us. Here we also realize, as the other thing brings. Although, we are not the main authors who have caused us to set aside our language mater because it was with the arrival of the English who came to impose their language, and if it was not good, then bad. Fortunately, if there were people who despite all that, continued to use them hidden from our original language, because if that had not happened today, the Quechua would be extinct. On the other hand, if we continue with the arrogant attitude of mock Quechua or any other language you have in Peru that is different from English, with the passage of time these people are going to want to learn to force the English because they have no other, to other languages really come to an end.
Because the Quechua language is virtually ignored by the Peruvian state wanted Arguedas English through the indigenous culture and thoughts of its inhabitants, for it Arguedas also used words in Quechua.
him in his works are not necessarily looking for the use of formal and aesthetic style, but looking beyond that crack those walls that have kept the Indians oppressed for so long. Thus Arguedas struggle for the preservation of multiculturalism and multilingualism in Peru in his works using the two languages of which he has knowledge and does not seek to impose on the other, it is that they try to complement each other, as though they are different languages, both show a single sensibility: the Peruvian.
Throughout the entire literary career of José María Arguedas, he collected indigenous oral sources (such as songs, myths, folktales, etc..) To highlight them through of Western genres such as novels, short stories and essays. His texts are characterized by the presence of languages and cultures. A great man he is regarded as a cultural translator, for while working with diversity of cultures in our country, at any time that a treatment is above the other, but somehow try to be like to be translated into one of them. It is precisely this bilingual and multicultural nature of what leads Arguedas and legitimizes it as a cultural translator, which gives a good chance that this is the way to bridge the large distance separating the opposing cultures and languages together them.
José María chose this translation, and why not something else? For simple, because that through it might represent the struggle of indigenous people and mestizos to be heard and to hear their protests only those men who occupy and care for the modernization of his country. At the same time uses her own experiences as a small footbridge linking the world to allow Quechua and English, and if you can not join at all (in fact it is very difficult to happen) at least do not let her break .
Arguedas's message was one: the project of his life and his work as one. The first thing he wanted was the claim of the Quechua culture that had so long been isolated from the rest and a second point I wanted to be a dialogue between the various "Perus" that inhabit the same in Peru, especially among the Creoles and indigenous, and that among them there was always a series of events that has kept them apart, as the Creoles was always above the Indian to which they are used to serve them, ie as employees, while the Indians got ; an outright brutality on their part, not considered at all, if it was governed for the benefit of themselves and not the poor and lower classes are advantage of them, ignored them, not listening, not regarded as human beings but as beasts who do not feel or think, well ... all those years of Peruvian history can show those things, it is rare that some No president (usually emerged from the middle or upper class) has been concerned to provide a better quality of life for the poor class, as only listening to the needs of the class to which he belonged, and this fact was inadvertently there is a greater resentment of the natives for these classes is that perhaps they were not "Peruvian too? And I think as anyone had right to be heard and to be reminded that Peru is not only the coast, or Lima as almost always has been, but it is the coast, mountains and forests that together make up this great country, and while there a government that represents the people, because that really represents all and not just certain social sector. This also meant that there is a wide gap between those classes. What you want is not necessarily Arguedas both classes come and give a big hug and forget their rivalries, because that's not going to happen, as something that characterizes Peruvians resent is that we are well, not easily forget what was previously happened or we did, but let's just how we behave with our brothers from Chile, but earlier there was a strong rivalry between those nations, past is past (forgive the redundancy) and live a new era where we must learn to forgive. But hey, that's not the point. José María Arguedas longs for both classes at least maintain the proper respect for each other. What good would that not happen? Things would not happen today see.
Something happens with the various languages and cultures in our country perhaps always looked after to see who stood above the others, and that was a serious error. Is not realize that together we can be stronger still. What more could we ask! We live in a nation where not only dominated by a single things, but we have great diversity and other nations wanted to own, and we do not know that we care for, or value it, or keep it. And that exploit other nations, but look to the United States, which teaches students that Latin America is theirs because they can not care what they have and therefore a day take in his power to the nations that make up because they do will appreciate. Perhaps one side is right. We want what we have in Peru, considering that some are better than another are not going to get anywhere, because we think that without the existence of a culture or language, is simply not Peru Peru ;.
know that José María Arguedas was a mixed race person, who lived in two different worlds, but always gave the Andean world interest because it was the most devalued. His narrative works would be a commitment to dialogue as I mentioned above, directly or indirectly raising the role of the Indian at the time that Arguedas himself lived.
Do we know where all this interest is born of Arguedas? Well simple. This project was born since he was a toddler, who was under the care of indigenous people in the house of his stepmother, and it was they who taught him the language, music and legends Quechua. We may think that music has nothing of importance in all this, but we were wrong because to him music Arguedas help much because what remained knotwork was about or was already broken. Servants also taught him that great love of the Andes. But that was increased further when more began to travel with their parents and their friends in the interior of Peru, collecting and studying the Andean folklore. Better off than us, so like him, we care for what is ours and not take you more than before preferential rates to all that come from abroad, with the typical, silly excuse that "foreign is much better than Peru." Okay, there are things we do better than the national product, one can not deny, but not for widespread that way. Many things we need are better than imported and yet they continue to consume. That's another reason why we are as we are then, what progress we can talk if we do not contribute to that happening. Same with the news, some are more interested and informed about what is happening outside the country, instead of being aware of what happens within their nation, and if you ask about a recent event, simply respond with "do not know ".
Same with travel, many go to the United States, Europe, Asia or virtually travel the world but do you know your Peru maybe? No. At just know where they were born. Must first be interested to know their own history, learn the place that welcomed us and gave us birth, to know your past to learn from him and rescue the good and avoid repeating the bad. And so, what do we call "Peruvian"?. Arguedas
thanks her stepmother punishment because it was sent him to the kitchen, where he learned to live and love to the Indians.
There was a time when he Indianism, where many Indian authors placed the central character of his works, where they were to reveal the "real" living. But all that is caused due to the uprising of indigenous people and people began to fear. Thus arises the flow. We can also find Mariategui that took some ideas of Manuel González Prada and Politeama speech where he said a great truth, the upper class is not what makes up Peru, it is not the middle class, much less foreigners ... Peru will make up the bulk of the indigenous class for so many years has received constant abuse by the other social sectors, and who has not said that these sectors also can not receive the mistreatment of foreigners, for example. Well then say it should not be do to others what they do not want to do with yourself. On the other hand gave more emphasis to indigenous and Arguedas took Mariátegui ideas. However, when Arguedas found out what was happening was upset because we were presenting an unrealistic image of the Indian, and he said daríaa people know what the man really lives Andean without lies and deceit, all with accuracy. There
we realize other writers while they placed the image of the Indian in his work as the main, fully transformed lifestyle they had. It narrates the story rather than things that are not quite real, but at that time was supposed to be expressing the condition in which the Andean people living for people with a vision of rhythm life he led, the receiving operation, the mistreatment of those who were victims, among other things that people - not all - unknown.
Arguedas in his work makes a game with Castilian and Quechua, as it uses both languages as part of a dialogue. We can note that in his "Rivers deep "where the main character interacts with Inca wall and spoke in Castilian but also introduces some phrases in Quechua. How nice is that in these days also use this strategy, which would allow us to have more knowledge about the language. But I think now receive more rejection by society, does not see that is out of "cool" to use those terms because what is in vogue is to speak English. And I do not want is a language that we own but belongs to another country. So prefer a thousand times so far because it comes from us "will not." Why do we hide a language like Quechua? Why deny where we came from? How many have wanted to belong to a great civilization as we have, where almost everything was perfect. And wish I'd had the good fortune to have a history like ours, to have the diversity that only we have in the world, diversity is no other world power and longs to have. And yet, are we ashamed? Rather, we must thank race from which we come, let us culture, customs that even today remains, their tongues, another tradition, the legends are so great, his exploits, some virtues, etc.
time Arguedas said something very true: if it comes all in Castilian, do not say anything at all of our inner world as the mestizo has not yet mastered Castilian as their language, and if it is written in Quechua literature would be doing close and very likely doomed to oblivion. And even in these times where everything has changed, and better off for positive change, but quite the contrary. I think that's one of the purposes for which they have made this work: that the Peruvian community awareness today.
José María, had an old style and his work is to involve the poetic, with the social and cultural, proposing new approaches in a nation where there is much diversity and yet there hostility and discrimination between them. Perhaps the mixture to Arguedas was above all because he wanted to have an equality between all nations of Peru, and not that there is this inequality that to this day remains where a leave benefit more than others following the slaughter of the majority.
What Arguedas today leaves us is something we appreciate him so much. The problem we have not solved until today, nor do we know if we can do. This encounter between the English and the indigenous, old and new. In fact, the problem is in us a duty to solve it.
We can say that Arguedas is Guaman Poma de Ayala of the time, translating and recreating ending Quechua and English. His work creates its own precursors and defines a novel model of transcultural. Attention Arguedas giving the ethnological detail was pretty intense, the comprehension and understanding of variations among the Andean people were profound.
While it is true that at those times of a rivalry developed between the coastal and mountain writers, defending the Hispanic and Indian, respectively, Arguedas did not belong to either extreme as the is positioned between two commanders, because he was always aware of the development of these two great cultures: Western and Indian. As a result of the trauma experienced during childhood and disappointed at the political level in Peru, a first time attempt suicide, but then try again shot himself in the head, and died four days later.
Finally we can say that Jose Maria Arguedas was one of the most important Andean writers of America. Above it has been a teacher, writer, poet, novelist, essayist, traveler, anthropologist wanted to leave as a legacy the same message: the claim of the Andean culture and Quechua, and that as a good half-breed who was, you can to the joint between these two worlds that were in his country (the Hispanic binding against the native Indian origin). Now he is in us that this dream can be fulfilled Arguedas.
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