"Warma Kuyay (Amor de Niño)" By Josê María Arguedas: A Dialectic Prelude to Liberation Ecotheology

José María Arguedas' Peruvian short story "Warma Kuyay (Amor de niño)" culminates with the punishment of a calf, as a result of the white landlord's sexual violation of Justina, an indigenous woman. This article argues that that theoretical discussions in ecotheology offer fruitf...

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Main Author: Park, Moisés (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 266-284
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KBR Latin America
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Ecocriticism
B Latin American Literature
B Liberation Theology
B Atonement
B Arguedas
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Summary:José María Arguedas' Peruvian short story "Warma Kuyay (Amor de niño)" culminates with the punishment of a calf, as a result of the white landlord's sexual violation of Justina, an indigenous woman. This article argues that that theoretical discussions in ecotheology offer fruitful tools for analysing the story, resonating with Andean cosmologies and enabling us to think more seriously about Arguedas' intersectional theological thoughts. "Warma Kuyay" prefaces theological ecocriticism, foreseeing current developments in liberation theology which do not just emphasise class, but other categories of identity.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frab012