{"product_id":"arguedas-los-rios-profundos-paperback","title":"Arguedas: Los Rios Profundos - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJose Maria Arguedas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos rios profundos\u003c\/i\u003e (Deep Rivers) is Arguedas' most famous novel. It tells the story of a young man's experience of growing up in highland Peru in a deeply divided society and of his struggle to overcome conflicts of language and culture. He manages to elaborate an alternative vision of Peru, drawing above all on native Indian sensibility and traditions. In the process, the novel draws on key elements of Peruvian history and culture and above all on popular memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuitable for university and A-level teaching as the plot is uncomplicated and the emotional atmosphere is immediately graspable. This edition offers a full glossary, and a comprehensive introduction which outlines the main features of the plot, with a clear interpretation of major episodes and of chief elements within the text, relating them to key features of modern Peru and explains the chief elements of native culture such as the use of myth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature or cultural history at upper sixth-form and university level.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e is Anniversary Professor of Poetics, Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He lived and taught in Peru in the 1960s, and has since been visiting Professor at universities there and in Mexico. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMemory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), and \u003ci\u003ePoets of Contemporary Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50372556325101,"sku":"9781853995156","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/NAii_5JcDs9781853995156.webp?v=1785506522","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/arguedas-los-rios-profundos-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}