The Mestizo Self. A History of Autobiographical Writing in Peru, 16th - 21st Century

该项目分析了16世纪至21世纪秘鲁自传体文本中关于自我的想法。它旨在展示自西班牙政府成立至今，殖民统治一直是秘鲁自我描述的关键因素。因此，秘鲁自传体文本的自我一直处于现代欧洲世界和被认为属于过去的非欧洲空间之间。该项目将这一地点命名为不同文化之间的混响，并深入研究秘鲁自我描述的混响特征。按照这一方法，该项目将提供秘鲁自传体写作的历史，并为有关殖民主义的辩论做出贡献。很明显，不仅殖民权力对于理解自我的观念至关重要，而且秘鲁人已经能够在他们的自传文本中批评殖民统治和殖民传统。

The project analyzes ideas about the self in autobiographical texts written in Peru between the 16th and the 21st centuries. It aims at showing the crucial factor colonial rule has been for self-descriptions in Peru since the very beginning of Spanish government until today. Therefore the self of Peruvian autobiographical texts has been located between a modern European world and a non-European space that is supposed to belong to the past. The project denominates this location between cultures mestizo and examines in depth the mestizo character of Peruvian self-descriptions. Following this approach, the project will provide a history of autobiographical writing in Peru and a contribution to the debate about coloniality. It will become clear that not only colonial power is crucial for understanding ideas of the self but also that Peruvians have been able to criticize colonial rule and colonial traditions in their autobiographical texts.