Reflections on indigenous education in the poetics of Efraín Miranda

Abstract

Abstract: This study aims at analyzing the poems “E Q” and “Ñ R”, published in Indios dios runa: antologia poética del profeta del fuego (2008), by Peruvian Efraín Miranda. From the tension between word pair - inside / outside, teacher / student, indigenous / non-indigenous, rural / urban - represented by the images of "school indigeta", in "EQ", and the teachers, in "ÑR", it will be pointed out similarities and differences between these poems. This dichotomy will be associated with the way in which the poet found to criticize the implementation of educational policies that, instead of valuing indigenous wisdom, are characterized by the attempt to acculturate these peoples.