Abstract
This essay argues that a refusal of dominant masculinity is central to the literary project of the Peruvian novelist and anthropologist José María Arguedas (1911–1969). In making this argument, I hope to lay the groundwork for a reassessment of the significance of gender in Arguedas’s work. In particular, the author argues that our understanding of the explicit politics of language and culture in Arguedasis is enhanced and enriched by a consideration to the more implicit (and quite likely unconscious) politics of masculinity in his writing.
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