Inglés The direction of the water. César Vallejo in Chaski (Cusco, 1972-1974)

Abstract

This paper studies the political uses of César Vallejo’s work and image published in Chaski. Semanario de los pueblos jóvenes (1972-1974), of ORAMS VII. As this publication had the function of spare the work made by that state agency in the region, as part of SINAMOS, the literature published there also impulsed the awareness of Peruvian social reality —local and national— that was changing in favor of the andean people, the historically exploited. Vallejo was the most published author in different ways, which it guided his contents to the people of the villages benefited —in Apurímac, Cusco and Madre de Dios— by the government of Velasco Alvarado’s reforms. I’ll show that Vallejo’s works contributed to impulsed a vindicate and and nationalist rhetoric, legitimizing Velasco’s political project, beside Vallejo’s image was used as part of revolutionary symbology. All this made Vallejo, in his marxist phase, an agent of local cultural policy of the government from ORAMS VII.