Amor Mundo

Name: Amor Mundo
Author: Jose Maria Arguedas

by Jose Maria Arguedas

Lyric poetry collection exploring love and identity within Quechua culture

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Jose Maria Arguedas

Peruvian novelist who wrote from deep inside Quechua culture to document the clash between Andean indigenous civilization and colonial modernity. Deep Rivers is his most celebrated novel.

More by Jose Maria Arguedas

Deep RiversBildungsroman of a Quechua youth navigating cultural conflict in the Peruvian highlands
The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down BelowExperimental novel blending indigenous and Spanish colonial narratives of Peru
Yawar FiestaNovel depicting a traditional indigenous festival and cultural tensions in Andean Peru
El SextoPrison narrative exploring social injustice and political persecution in Peru