The powerful one who speaks: the river and the sociocultural dynamics in the poetry of Jose Maria Arguedas

Abstract

The objective of this study is to observe how the river provides a poetic movement, and how this dynamic transcends various fields. This transfer from one individual to another set up a mechanism not being opaque, but affirms their identity and power, establishing a flow of identities. For an  explanation  will  follow  the  critical  discourse  analysis.  This  analysis  provides  the  possibility  of  taking  categories  from  different  disciplines  such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics and literature. This manifold vision will make possible to observe the object in all their complexity. For example, explain how the properties of the river like force, sound, music, energy, progress are transferred to men, animals and communities. Also set the various dynamics and functions played by the river in the writing of Arguedas. This study focuses on the poetry of the river where the figure assumes divine dimensions: talk to the elder gods or human dimensions, to cry when the conditions of the men are adverse.