Polar’s Indigenismo and Hetergeneous Literatures: Their Double Sociocultural Statute

Antonio Cornejo Polar’s Indigenismo and Hetergeneous Literatures: Their Double Sociocultural Statute is extremely dense. To be honest I had to reread a few different quotes and sections of the piece. Polar’s piece was a little complicated for me so I did my best to pick out a couple of his ideas and discuss those. What stood out to me in Polar’s piece was when he does into depth about Latin American historical textual ideas. It was extremely interesting to me when Polar state Retamar thoughts on the “three stages of regional intercommunication: romanticism, modernism and avant-guardism, which underpinned the most solid unity forged by the new Spanish American narrative. Polar believes that this model would be sufficient for comprehension because the system is divided up into smaller divisions. Polar continues to discuss the framework of Latin American Literature through the eyes of Alejandro Losada. Losada has proposed to delimit three literary system: the realist, the naturalist, and the subjectivist. This general structure of Latin American culture creates a very wide range of autonomy. This greater structure can be divided into smaller divisions, more specific, and these diverse structures do not have to be necessarily contradictory but yet similar frameworks. In conclusion, he finishes the topic, entitled The Question of National Literatures, by saying, “In fact, even literatures from conflicting social groups vying for power correspond to a social structure that, not because of its stratification, ceases being unique and absolute” (Satro, Rios, Trigo 104).