Title
The Ground Weapons by Juan Ramírez Ruiz: Decolonic poetic rewriting of the Peruvian nation in times of war
Other title
Las armas molidas de Juan RamÍrez Ruiz: Reescritura poética decolonial de la nación peruana en tiempos de guerra
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Publisher(s)
Latinoamericana Editores
Abstract
Las armas molidas (The Ground Weapons, 1996) was the last poetry book by Juan Ramírez Ruiz (1946-2007). It proposes a trajectory from diverse wars to a state of plenitude, peace and justice in Peru. Paralelly, the book proposes another trajectory: the act of rewriting as a “tool ontologically ours”, whose Andean base, components and equivalencies appear in the upper section of the book pages. Both trajectories are denominated “Hanan Nation” and “Hanan Tongue”, according to the Andean category of Hanan (above). This article examines the poetic “rewriting” of Peru that the book's aesthetic-ideological proposal represents. One can read this proposal in decolonial terms, and recognize the continuity of the different wars in Peru and their role in affecting native cultures and languages since colonial times until the internal war of the late 20th century, the specific moment in which Ramírez Ruiz wrote the book.
Start page
283
End page
308
Volume
40
Issue
80
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Literaturas específicas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85024111728
Source
Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana
ISSN of the container
02528843
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