El maleficio social heredado por la sangre india, visto desde la perspectiva de Ángel Felicísimo Rojas en sus relatos “Sangre pesada”, “¡Achirano!” y “El maestro Mariano Guamán, según la versión de su colega Aurelio Benítez”

Abstract

The first half of the twentieth century in Ecuador was a period of political, social and cultural agitation. The outbreak of Socialist thought, tried to highlight the need to make structural changes in our country. The revolutionary doctrine seized literature and led to the art movement called social realism, which tried to portray the reality of that time. Ángel Felicísimo Rojas, considered as one of the representatives of this movement, created works with high social content and incorporated stylistic innovations that were positioned as a reference of his generation. One of his concerns undoubtedly was to describe the Ecuadorian identity problematic based on his Indian origins. Within this context, three stories were analized included in his book Un idilio bobo, whose characters mostly mestizos have a common denominator, the constant questioning of not knowing who they are. Obviously, this existential dilemma originated from the colonization caused in them an identity crisis that condemned them to live a social curse manifested in racism and discrimination, circumstances that the author describes with great precisión.