The oral tradition in Ciro Alegría’s novels
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v1i9p160-195Keywords:
Ciro Alegría, oral literature, popular narrative, oral taleAbstract
This paper studies the influence of oral literature in Ciro Alegría’s novelistic trilogy, La serpiente de oro [1935], Los perros hambrientos [1938] y El mundo es ancho y ajeno [1941]. This corpus includes stories that come from the Andean oral tradition, whose record demonstrates the strong identification of the author with the popular narrative and the crucial role it plays in his novels content and structure. In the same perspective, there is the figure of the oral storyteller, whose performance and discursive strategies are modeled by the popular storyteller. In addition to that, in Alegría’s novels, the oral tradition articulates with the collective memory and expresses the Indians’ opinions in relation to testimonial narratives. On a wider perspective, Alegría’s novels filiation with oral literature represents his acknowledgment of the non-canonical expressions of Peruvian literature.
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