“En los matorrales del ensueño, voy entonando khaswas”: the Domesticated Modernism of Gamaliel Churata

The work follows the presence of the 19th century modernism in the work of Gamaliel Churata, from his avowedly modernist beginnings to his last poetic works, to verify that it does not diminish regularly after El pez de oro (1957): it disappears in Resurrección de los muertos, but it returns in later works such as Khirkhilas de la sirena and other poetry books. However, these forms change their meaning as the author abandons the decadent worldview in favor of an Andean philosophy that denies death by opposing it to the germination of life. Modernist forms serve as a channel for some contents found in its code, but above all they become indigenous in order to create an unusual encounter and debate with Andean thought, and are part of the elaboration of the concept of khaswa, which refers to the new Andean writing.