THE AGUARUNA GIRL. THE CHARACTER BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM IN MARIO VARGAS LLOSA’S THE GREEN HOUSE Cover Image

AGUARUNA. PERSONAJUL ÎNTRE CIVILIZAȚIE ȘI BARBARISM ÎN ROMANUL LUI MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, CASA VERDE
THE AGUARUNA GIRL. THE CHARACTER BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM IN MARIO VARGAS LLOSA’S THE GREEN HOUSE

Author(s): Otilia-Cătălina Hercuţ
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Aguaruna; identity; otherness; alienated; machismo; abuse;

Summary/Abstract: Through his novels, especially through Green House, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa highlights the tares of the Peruvian society and its pseudo-civilization. Comparing the city to the selva, the latter is virtuously superior, as true acts of kindness and humanity are being created in the selva. Standing out of the narrative mosaic, Bonifacia, an Aguaruna christened by nuns, abides the drama of an alienated, humiliated, abused woman in the context of the Peruvian machismo. Her life is a symbolic outline of the selva destiny in contact with civilization.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2017
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 59-64
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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