Forasteros, indios urbanos y migrantes digitales. Figuras y nociones de la migración en el sistema testimonial andino

Abstract

The recent urban landscapes, crossed by migrations and violence, demand new notions capable of coping with the complex identification processes in the Andean area. Therefore, and from the analysis of discourse, I am interested in building a literary serial which moves between the neo-indigenism and the testimonial genre, marking its modulations around the figures and metaphors of migrations: the foreigner of José María Arguedas, the digital migrants of the Bolivian poet Rubén Hilari, the Cusco carrier in the testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, the k’epiri of the paceño Víctor Hugo Viscarra, the subject of war in the autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán, and the trans-Andean migrants in the chronicle of Cristián Alarcón, allow us to trace a constellation of figures and notions that put compact and homogeneous identities in check.