Corpus Delicti. El cuerpo indígena del delito en dos relatos de Enrique López Albújar
Corpus Delicti. The Indigenous Body as Object of Crime in Two of Enrique López Albujar’s Short Stories

Summary/Abstract: Enrique López Albujar is a Peruvian writer who was considered part of the Indigenist’s movement because of the renewed realistic way in which he portraited his Indian protagonists. We will analyse two of his short stories in which he describes the so-called Indian justice. We propose a parallel reading of the narrative and the official judicial language (the author was a judge, apart from a writer) used to describe actions and protagonists, as well as the dynamics of punishment within this indigenous justice. Cuentos Andinos was published at the moment when one phase of the discussion around the construction of the Peruvian nation was at its height, a discussion in which the indigenous population was, theoretically, a participant. It is then possible to consider that disavowing the indigenous judicial system, essence of values and principles of a community, could have been read as a hidden warning about the possibilities of integration of the indigenous population into this project of a new nation of which the most important purpose was to be seen as modern.

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