After reading Deep Rivers, this book taught me how deeply culture, language, and environment can shape an individual’s sense of identity, as through Ernesto’s experiences, growing up is not only simply about age, but about becoming aware of social hierarchies, and cultural conflict. Ernesto’s connection to Indigenous traditions and the natural world made me realize […]
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“Deep Rivers” revolves around Ernesto, a young child torn between two different worlds. With an indigenous mother who speaks Quechua and a father who is of Spanish descent, he has a mestizo background and is at the intersection of two overlapping cultures. Through the protagonist’s perspective, the book explores the complications that intercultural and bicultural […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Deep Rivers, Jose Arguedas, Latin American literature
