The Reelaboration of the Myth as Appropriation of the Andean Memory in Baladas Peruanas by González Prada

Abstract

In this article, it is hypothesized that from the implementation of the myth element within the composition of the poetic pieces of Baladas peruanas, there is an appropriation of the Andean memory. That is to say, through textualization strategies such as the dedication, the citation and the epigraph, Prada legitimates in Baladas peruanas a mythical way of thinking the world and inserts it within a context of greater roots like the Western European. To this end, firstly, communicating vessels between Garcilaso de la Vega's Comentarios reales and Baladas peruanas, from which the element of the myth is rescued, are reused and recreated in a plastic, new and autonomous manner, preserving the matrix of the prehispanic myths. In this way, the textual subject appropriates elements of the Andean culture and its way of seeing the world at a structural and semantic level which becomes an authentication and universalization in a valid and different way of conceiving History.