Abstract

LEONARDO LOAYZA, Richard. An approximation to socio-politically committed fantastic peruvian short-story: The case of "Mateo Yucra" (1992), by Juan Pablo Heredia Ponce. Hallazgos [online]. 2016, vol.13, n.26, pp.19-39. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2016.0026.01.

This article analyzes one of the first Peruvian short stories that addresses the topic of internal armed conflict in Peru. I am referring to "Mateo Yucra" (1992) by Juan Pablo Heredia Ponce, where the fantastic is employed as a discursive artifact, which allows his author to take a stance about the harsh socio-political events that were occurring in Peru since the beginning of the decade of the 80s. Peruvian literary criticism has studied the narrative of the internal armed conflict from a merely realist viewpoint. However, these specialists seem to forget a series of important works (among them "Mateo Yucra") that deal with the topic appealing to a contra factual element. My article pretends, departing from the study of Heredia Ponce short story and from the contributions of the theory of the fantastic (Ferreras, Molloy, Roas) and cultural criticism (Spivak, Butler, Agamben, Zizek) to think the notion of a socio-politically committed fantastic literature, cathegory that could be useful to study an important area of the narrative dealing with internal armed conflict in Peru

Keywords : Political violence; internal armed conflict; fantastic literature; peruvian literature; peruvian narrative.

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