One of the main trends of literary research in Latin America is the study of literature from oral tradition, is ie, one that speaks directly to popular imagination and that does not use writing as a mode of textual production. the recent publication of oral literature or literature of oral tradition (Lima. Pakarina, 2010) of Gonzalo Espino is in the field of enlargement of the corpus of our literary tradition, incorporating a rigorous analysis of neglected texts hegemonic critically.
The book is judged the hegemonic literary canon by highlighting the contribution of writers such as Adolfo Vienrich, Hildebrand Castro Pozo, Rouis Margarite D'Harcourt and Harcourt. In fact, the thorny issue of critical ideas dominant represented by José de la Riva Agüero posed corpu reduction of our production s literary and written in English, also demystifies José Carlos Mariategui, who, according to researcher San Marcos, excluded Hispanic literature stating that this was not to writing.
In oral literature ... it needs only four characteristics of this literary creation: the one that counts is the story on behalf of a community; you choose a special time to count orally, as there is a tacit agreement between the sender and receiver, we choose a given area that involves a convention (ie, a "contract") between sender and destinatatarios social and "oral text requires a constant reciprocity between the saying and the listener" (p. 38).
Antonio Cornejo Pola already pointed out that the Peruvian literature polysystem was formed, in turn, by three systems: the scholarly literature in English, that of popular literature in Castilian and literatures Aborigines. That way, made a notional extension of our literary corpus. Espino, meanwhile, tries to reconstruct the collective memory that emerges from the oral texts, emphasizing the study of discourses founding as the manuscript of Huarochirí or the testimony of Gregorio Mamani Condori. The researcher performed the analysis with expository clarity and good bibliographic information, no doubt, these texts "show the inexhaustible creativity of the people who live far from the city or on the margins of it. The literature of oral tradition is still marked by the memory of the people "(p. 53).
