Peace & Justice Faculty Lunch Talk: Enduring Colonialism and Cultural Injustice: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth Century Peru

Presented by Dr. Thomas Ward, Professor Emeritus of Spanish

When the Spanish finally defeated Peru's ruling Inka class in 1571, the novel was banned, and Peru's first native-born writer Inka Garcilaso de la Vega was also eventually suppressed. In this, colonial subjects were not allowed to explore who they were, a cultural injustice. After Independence in 1821, writers solely began to perceive that they were no longer Spaniards; the long period of censorship had ended; and they were now free to read Cervantes's Don Quijote as well as Inca Garcilaso's Inkan chronicles. Discussing his new book, Thomas Ward will bring four of Garcilaso's nineteenth-century readers into focus as they established Garcilasian methodologies for recovering the strands of Peruvian-ness that had unjustly been covered over by colonialism.

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