Imágenes de la poeticidad quechua en el americanismo literario

Abstract

Quechua was in contact and alternation with Spanish for more than 300 years, and it acquired a particular poetic value in the 1840s and 1860s. At that time, some appraising studies of indigenous languages were published which resemantized the descriptions of the colonial period and contributed to establish images that were projected until the end of the 19th century and, in some cases, the mid-20th century. This article analyzes the characteristics of the eloquence and elegance bestowed upon Quechua in these studies, in relation to the mark of the Royal Commentaries by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the construction of the first lexicographical repertoires, and the coinciding 19th-сеnturу postulation of an American literature. Other themes include the poeticism of Quechua as a philological and ideological answer to the political hypotheses of exclusion and confrontation vis-à-vis native peoples.