Mito, memoria y contranarrativa: la propuesta de un pachacuti intercultural en Rosa Cuchillo

Abstract

This article analyzes the novel Rosa Cuchillo by Óscar Colchado Lucio as a counter-narrative to Western hegemonic discourses during the Internal Armed Conflict. Through the appropriation and resignification of the myths of the goddess Cavillaca and Inkarri, the text proposes an intercultural pachacuti: a spiral return that does not idealize the past, but seeks a social transformation from the Andean otherness. The character of Rosa is the one who enables a plural and decolonizing dialogue, in contrast to the failure of the rigid model that is articulated in her son Liborio. Thus, Rosa Cuchillo becomes an ethical-political project that imagines a plural, reconciled and truly intercultural Peru.