SOURCE: "The Indian and the Literary Tradition" in Sons of the Wind: The Search for Identity in Spanish American Indian Literature, Rutgers University Press, 1982, pp. 33-74.
Muiioz is a Peruvian-born American writer and educator who wrote his book Sons of the Wind, as a response to "the almost total neglect of the Indians'point of view in the understanding of Latin American culture." In the following excerpt from that work Mu;ioz discusses the pre-Columbian origins of the indigenista novel.
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