Joaquín Gallegos Lara y «El síndrome de Falcón»: literatura, mestizaje e interculturalidad en el Ecuador

Ecuadorian writers have created a rich legacy of characters who point towards a national identity that is, ultimately, multi-national and inter-cultural. Although the authors of the 1930’s generation proposed through their fiction a notion of nation that included all of the different cultures within...

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Autor: Handelsman, Michael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/772
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/772
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Literatura ecuatoriana
Joaquín Gallegos Lara
Demetrio Aguilera-Malta
Generación del 30
vanguardias
«Síndrome de Falcón»
Ecuadorian Literature
1930’s generation
vanguards
«The Falcon Syndrome»
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Sumario:Ecuadorian writers have created a rich legacy of characters who point towards a national identity that is, ultimately, multi-national and inter-cultural. Although the authors of the 1930’s generation proposed through their fiction a notion of nation that included all of the different cultures within it –it was a failed miscegenation project as it eliminated differences while reinforcing inequalities–, the social role of these groups during the 90’s complements that proposed by the literature of the 30’s. Additionally, the political self representation of these groups calls into question the criteria of the contemporary cultural context exemplified by the «The Falcon Syndrome», which seeks to be a metaphor for the burden of representing socially disadvantaged groups, which has weighed heavily over Ecuadorian writers throughout the 20th century. All of this propels the reconfiguration process within the panorama of Ecuadorian culture: the growing participation of the long-silenced voices, as well as the emergence of other ways to look upon the world, allows for new readings of classic novels such as Don Goyo or La isla virgen, by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta.