Peace and Justice Faculty Lunch Talk Series

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru. After the Spanish defeated Peru's ruling Inka class, the novel was banned, and Peru's first native-born writer Inka Garcilaso de la Vega was also suppressed. Colonial subjects were not allowed to explore who they were, a cultural injustice. After Independence, writers began to perceive that they were no longer Spaniards, and they were now free to read Garcilaso's Inkan chronicles. Thomas Ward will depart from his new book published with University of Nebraska Press to bring these anticolonial writers from Peru into focus.