Further Reading
- Aponte, Barbara, "The Initiation Archetype in Arguedas, Roa Bastos and Ocampo," Latin American Literary Review 11, no. 21 (fall-winter 1982): 45-55. (Arguedas's works and Peru itself are seen in tension between utopia and despair.)
- Beyersdorff, Margot, "Voice of the Runa: Quechua Substratum in the Narrative of José María Arguedas," Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 2, no. 1 (spring 1986): 28-48. (Special attention is given to the role of the Quechua language in shaping Arguedas's narratives.)
- Castro-Klaren, Sara, "Dancing and the Sacred in the Andes: From the Taqui-Oncoy to 'Rasu-Niti'," Dipositio/n: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 14, no. 36-8 (1989): 169-85. (Arguedas's work is compared with Andean myths of death and rebirth.)
- Caviedes, Cesar, "The Latin American Boom-Town in the Literary View of José María Arguedas," in Geography and Literature: A Meeting of the Disciplines, edited by William E. Mallory and Paul Simpson-Housley, pp. 57-77. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1987. (Examines how Arguedas depicts rapid urbanization.)
- Columbus, Claudette Kemper, "Mother Earth in Amazonia and in the Andes: Darcy Ribeiro and José María Arguedas," in Literature and Anthropology, edited by Phillip A. Dennis and Wendell Aycock, pp. 165-80. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1989. (Arguedas's field work in anthropology is shown as a strong influence on his fiction and poetry.)
- Columbus, Claudette Kemper, Mythological Consciousness and the Future: José María Arguedas. New York: Peter Lang, 1986, 191 p. (Identifies several elements of Arguedas's fiction as emanating from his knowledge of Andean myths.)
- De Castro, Juan E., "From Mestizaje to Multiculturalism: On José María Arguedas, New Mestizas, Demons, and the Uncanny," in Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature, pp. 119-27. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. (Discusses the transcultural sources of knowledge Arguedas employed and revealed in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.)
- Ekstrom, Margaret V., "Crossing 'Deep Rivers': José María Arguedas and the Renaming of Peru," Literary Onomastics Studies 16 (1989): 33-7. (Discusses Arguedas's treatment of the effects of language and power in naming places.)
- Emery, Amy Fass, "The Eye of the Anthropologist: Vision and Mastery in José María Arguedas," in The Anthropological Imagination in Latin American Literature, pp. 43-69. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. (Discusses Arguedas's background in anthropology in relation to his fiction and poetry.)
- Givenez Mico, and Jose Antonio, "The Deterritorialization of Knowledge in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 26, no. 1-2 (fall-winter 2001-2002): 83-105. (Asserts that Arguedas represented many of the racial and cultural conflicts of modern life through the hybrid nature of life and the characters in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.)
- Kelley, Alita, "José María Arguedas and the Tenets of Neo-Modernity: The Andean Novelist's Challenge to a Zeitgeist," in Beyond Indigenous Voices: LAILA/ALILA 11th International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures, edited by Mary H. Preuss, pp. 151-55. Lancaster, Calif.: Labyrinthos, 1996. (Examines Arguedas's perspectives on the role and vocation of the novelist in the context of post-modernism.)
- Lambright, Anne, "Losing Ground: Some Notes on the Feminine in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo," Hispanfólia 122 (January 1998): 71-84. (Argues that the feminist symbolism of the foxes in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo is rooted in Arguedas's association of the Andes as feminine in contrast with the masculine coast.)
- Ledgerwood, Mikle D., "José María Arguedas's Rural Indian in Los Rios Profundos: An Example of Whether Indians are Rural Unchanging Inhabitants in Twentieth Century Latin American Literature," SECOLAS Annals: Journal of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies 18 (March 1987): 60-6. (Examines the effects of social and economic change as they appear in Arguedas's works.)
- Ortega, Julio, and Galen D. Greaser, "A Book on Death," in Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative, translated by William L. Siemens, pp. 183-89. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. (Discusses the sexual initiations of Arguedas's adolescent protagonists.)
- Walford, Lynn, "Beyond Chaos: El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo," Hispanic Journal 21, no. 2 (fall 2000): 421-34. (Argues that the disorder and rootlessness of the setting of El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo evoke lifeless chaos.)
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