Dramas populares y conmemoraciones: los incas de Carhuamayo

Abstract

Carhuamayo is an Andean town in Peru, near a mmmg center from which it has suffered such negative impacts as land loss, government neglect, and emigration. The author has found several plays, created or recreated by emigrants from the town in this century, in which well-known historical events and literary themes (conquest by the Inca or the Spanish, rebellions in the colonial period, etc.) are used in response to present day concerns. The dates and history of these texts, as well as the study of their real acceptance by the public, allows him to identify this manipulation of events of the past to meet local needs of the present.