La crisis del cosmos finquero-gamonal en Flavio Herrera y José María Arguedas, 1933-1935

Abstract

In the aftermath of the 1929 capitalist crisis, Latin America experienced peasant rebellions and military dictatorships. This article explores the crisis of agrarian societies from two books published in 1935: La tempestad, by Flavio Herrera, and Agua, by José María Arguedas. I examine the spatiality of the agrarian cosmos and how each author uses inversed, prosopopoeia images, of a world in war. Also, I study the fundamental differences in the conceptualization of the Indian in plantations. Finally, I analyze the centrality of the racial wound in societies based on the agrarian violence of plantations.