Identity and History in La piedra cansada

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to insert the Andean cosmovision within the poetic modernity parameters situated in the contours of the publication of Los heraldos negros (The black heralds) and his theatrical work, contextualizing them in the background of the roman­tic-modernist, avant-garde and indigenist speeches of the 1930s; so that we can appreciate the continuity or overlapping among the first poetic works and his theatrical work, mainly, La piedra cansada in which he shows the attachment to the socio-cultural values of the Peruvian Andes and his humanist vision that encompasses the characters in their universe, even associating them with natural elements such as stones. There are also other works that are less easy to analyze from this same perspective, such as Colacho hermanos. For this study, an interpretative analysis of the aesthetic motifs, both of poetry and theatre, has been used and in this way probing the semantic fields that refer to tenderness, the need to dialogue and to unite to live the own feelings and emotions of the Andean inhabitant in all their dimension.