Kirsten Mahlke: "Andean Concepts of Good Life in Seventeenth-Century Peruvian Chronicles: Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca"

Kirsten Mahlke is Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, University of Konstanz.

Her talk explores seventeenth-century Andean concepts of "buen vivir" (good life) through a comparative reading of the chronicles of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, with particular attention to the intersections of Indigenous and European intellectual traditions, colonial historiography, and literary representation.

Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Latin American & Iberian Cultures and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of California Irvine.