In this research, we use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the narrative of Radio Ucamara in order to render visible the material and spiritual consequences of the largest oil spill of the first decade of the 2000s in Peru. To do so, I analyze two documentaries: Consuelen a mi pueblo. Cuninico, dos años después (14' 37"), and Daños a la espiritualidad kukama (11' 40"). They show their forms of resistance and denunciation through what we call a voz memoriosa. This conceptual metaphor is characterized by intersecting their own social practices (songs, icaros, and stories) with official narratives (the chronology of the spill, the tallying of material damage, and extracts from trials). Thus, their way of presenting the consequences of the spill and of representing themselves in relation to them is not only cross-cultural, but also highly metaphorical. I chose to apply a qualitativ...

Sangama (1942) by the author Arturo Hernández is one of the first novels of the thematic renewal of fiction about Amazonia. This article analyzes the novel from two points: first, the formal arrangement of the work will be studied from the narratology to demonstrate that this is not a merely descriptive novel as pointed out by literary critics. Thus, the novel would be arranged by what we have called «logic of narrative suspense» in which the narrative and discursive planes demonstrate an artificial plot that preserves the intrigue. Second, we will analyze Tula from postcolonial theory. We argue that she is an «unthinkable» subject, as Michel Trouillot has theorized, since she encourages suspense in the work and thus allows us to understand it. We argue that this novel proposes the opposite of what literary-critical studies have affirmed: Sangama is complex both in its form and in i...