Colonialidade/decolonialidade na crítica literária mariateguiana

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to establish an intercultural dialogue with José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), based on the research program modernity/coloniality/decoloniality elaborated by the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano (1928-2018). We intend to reveal, through the literary criticism that Mariátegui wove about canonical authors in Peruvian literature, the colonial content of their narratives, which stereotyped the figure of the indigenous from the Andes. In this sense, we will demonstrate how the literature constituted in Mariátegui, both a source to access the original Peruvian past, and a mechanism for making visible the Andean indigenous peoples.