1. NCCLA Presentation
2016
David N. Petro
MA Spanish Program: University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2. Paper title
O“The decolonial
bildungsroman: a
theoretical perspective vis-
à-vis Bakhtin’s chronotope
in Deep Rivers (1956), by
José María Arguedas”

3. Theoretical Basis
O In essence, the paper analyzes the
intersections of time and space depicted in
the boarding school Ernesto attends, the
chicherías from the Huanupata neighborhood,
the houses of the rich hacendados, and,
finally, the caseríos where the tenant farmers
reside. Said chronotopic analysis reveals only
one suitable option for Ernesto: the ayllu, the
decolonial space of memory transformed in
the future.