¿Transculturación inversa de dominador a indio? La simbología del agua en José María Arguedas

Abstract

Rosario Castellanos and José María Arguedas, a writer and ethnologist, are two emblematic figures of a trasnculturization that takes place in the opposed way to the normal one, that is, from the dominating group to the dominated community. Arguedas is valued today as a writer who penetrates within the painful failures of such an inversion, and his grief was so large that he committed suicide. Through the symbolization of the water, J. M. Arguedas expresses the quechua beliefs and rituals as well as the spirit of sacrifice and the sensation of drowning. For his characters, to die in the water would equal to the salvation from social orphanhood; that is, the end of the solitude, which, in our species, equals to the death. Through these pages, I use Ricoeur’s hermeneutics to explain the nature and synchronic and diachronic twists of the symbols