Table Of ContentMABEL MORAÑA
ARGUEDAS /
VARGAS LLOSA
Dilemmas and Assemblages
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Mabel M oraña
Arguedas / Vargas
Llosa
Dilemmas and Assemblages
Translated by Andrew Ascherl
Mabel Moraña
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Translated by Andrew Ascherl
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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RANSLATOR S OTE
While most of the sources cited by the author are from Spanish edi-
tions (either originally or in translation), throughout the translation
of this book I have used published English translations whenever they
were available. When published English translations were used for quota-
tions from works by the authors on whom this study focuses (José María
Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa), the in-text citations refer fi rst to the
Spanish edition and then to the published English translation. All other
translations of Spanish-language sources in this book are my own. I have
also included a minimal number of brief translator’s notes among the
author’s original endnotes. These appear in square brackets. I would like
to express my gratitude to Mabel Moraña for the opportunity to work
with her on this translation, as well as for her patience, kindness, generos-
ity, and friendship.
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book emerged from an invitation from Sergio R. Franco, a professor
at Temple University, to participate in a session dedicated to the work of
José María Arguedas that took place at the 30th International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association in San Francisco in May 2012.
The return to the work of Arguedas and Vargas Llosa from new theoreti-
cal perspectives motivated me to carry out, starting with this meeting, an
extensive confrontation with both writers’ work, above all with regard
to their cultural and ideological origins. This book would not have been
possible without the stimulus and great quantity of materials, informa-
tion, and clues which Sergio generously brought to my attention during
the process of drafting the manuscript. To him, then, goes all of my
gratitude. I also thank Alex Eastman, for his bibliographic assistance and
for the careful correction of drafts and page proofs. To Iberoamericana/
Vervuert, and particularly to Simón Bernal, goes my thankful appreciation
for their invaluable editorial care. My appreciation to Martha Canfi eld,
director of the Centro Studi Jorge Eielson, in Florence, Italy, and to
Alessio Minelli (photographer), for allowing me access to the reproduc-
tion of the beautiful painting that appears on the cover of the Spanish
edition of this book.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
2 Opening 7
3 Arguedas and Vargas Llosa, or the Dilemmas of the
Model Intellectual 1 3
4 Archaism as Floating Signifi er 3 9
5 Language as a Battlefi eld (I): The Dilemma of the Sign 69
6 Language as a Battlefi eld (II): The Narcissism of
the Voice 1 03
7 Toward a Poetics of Social Change: Truth, Modernity,
and the National Subject in José María Arguedas 1 29
8 Which Truth? Otherness and Melodrama in Vargas Llosa 1 63
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