Ricardo Ayllon
Lima, October 2009
For five days, and through a colloquy, has paid tribute to the Peruvian writer Mark Yauri Montero. In an alliance full of enthusiasm to writers and readers who attended the event, students and teachers joined forces at the School of Literature at the universities Federico Villarreal in Lima and Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo of Huaraz, to public recognition of narrative works, lyrics and essays more solid, though silent, our country.
say silent because more than one of your readers has had the feeling that this writer never bothered to Ancashino signs or by advertising media generally looking for writers in our country. For me Yauri is for those who still rely on the creative quality and history for the evaluation and final grade for their work. And this has been shown more clearly to see the seriousness, depth and expanse of exposed critical essays and texts about their creative work and reflective. At the end of the conference, formally called "Reviewing the Andean languages. Tribute to Mark Yauri Montero ", based in the city of Huaraz and Lima, I was happy with the impression that it is a work Yauri distant from that which is read and leaves in the trunk of oblivion. On the contrary, that serves to reflect not only the issues fictionalized in his novels, but also to track the process of so-called Indian narrative, of which there is much to register it maintains effective among students and university researchers.
An important point in this conversation was the treatment of the studies and compilations published by Yauri oral tradition. In this sense, teachers Mena Javier Morales, Gonzalo Espino and poet Omar Aramayo knew infect the enthusiasm for the historical dimension that gives the Ancashino its interpretation of the oral tradition. Regarding the review of your fiction, it wore the younger, highlighting the participation of Alexander and Edith Mautino Guillén Pérez Orozco, each representing his alma mater, Antúnez de Mayolo and Villarreal respectively.
But as I said a moment ago, the event served Andean literatures that constitute, in general, an important thematic. In this sense, certainly was encouraging to know that, beyond the legacy continue to review the work of Churata, Joy, Arguedas, Vargas Vicuña, etc., Some have concentrated their methodological skills in the periphery narrative, bringing to debate, in this symposium, the results of their research to writers such as Antero Peralta Vásquez or Feliciano Padilla, who, among many others, did not receive even greater attention given to literary studies. It is therefore important to know the views of the anthropologist Lasdilao Landa and young Douglas Vásquez Rubio Bautista.
Although that anticipation and excitement filled the Hall of Degrees in the Faculty of Humanities (or Paraninfito) of Villarreal, crowded with young students, was to hear the bold proposals of Dorian Espezúa Salmon, who, for some time this part, seeks to clarify some concepts about the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Indian, which, to Dorian, is at all levels and strata of Peruvian society, either as a peasant in the Andean region, or as President of the Republic the big city. According to their way of viewing the Indian, it must be recognized not only as a subject of study but also as a researcher: "The Indian is now partner and scholar of Western culture, and the main bias in not recognized as indigenous Indian, "dares to launch Espezúa, based on the premise that the indigenous is inseparable part of our process as a country. And therefore, "all discourse produced in the Andean region is Indian, including the Afro, the Chinese and anti-indigenous."
Only the roots of a vast and solid creative work and essays like Yauri Montero, can bring students of our national universities this beautiful company to rethink the speeches, statements and content pending on the agenda of the literature national. In this sense, it is not only thank this hard-working of the imagination for giving us the opportunity to take shelter in its shade and keep taking consciousness of modernity, representation and industriousness of its work, whose themes concern has never ceased to recreate and think in this country since its myths, its diversity cultural and historical traumas.