Sumak Kawsay and Cultural Subject in Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s No Me Esperen En Abril

Abstract

We introduce the Sumak Kawsay concept from Bryce Echenique’s novel, No me esperen en abril, via the cultural paradigm of the Pacha Mama in the Lima of the 1950s (nineteen fifties), identified as a migratory alluvium, the break downs, the gap, (the distance) and eventually, the elimination of the two main characters of the novel, Manongo, the hegemonic power representative, and Adán Quispe, the cholo del corralón, who questions the neo-liberal speech of the economical development, pointing the cesuras it generates, as themselves problematizes the relationship between humans and Nature.