Pre-Columbian Literature

between the ancestral and colonial perspectives

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.14.27.2

Keywords:

pre-Columbian literature, oral literature, transcription, adaptation, interpolation, cultural memory, Pre-Columbian literature, oral literature, transcription, adaptation, interpolation, cultural memory.

Abstract

This paper questions whether it is possible to talk about pre-Columbian literatures, considering that those woks are the result of a complex literacy process carried out during the colonial period. This approach is a classification proposal that differentiates transcripts, adaptations and interpolations, such as possible procedures in the progressive composition of the pre-Columbian literary corpus, in consonance with the greater or lesser presence of foreign or colonial elements within the oral ancestral tradition. Yet, whether understood as Western written versions of the pre-Hispanic orality or as colonized cultural memory, the pre-Columbian literatures are an aesthetic and cultural reality that claims far greater attention in the field of literary studies.

Author Biography

  • Darío Gómez Sánchez, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Doctor en Literatura Comparada de la Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (ufrj). Profesor adjunto de la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (ufpe), Recife-Brasil.

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Published

2017-10-31

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 27 (2017)

Section

Literature

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Gómez Sánchez, D. (2017). Pre-Columbian Literature: between the ancestral and colonial perspectives. Co-herencia, 14(27), 41-64. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.14.27.2