Kutlu, Mehmet NecatiYöney, Gülşah Pilpil2021-11-252021-11-252021http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/76344This thesis examines how the Peruvian indigenous identity is treated as "the other" in literature from the Spanish conquest until the end of the 20th century. In 1532, the local community was defined as indigenous for the first time when the Spanish set foot on the Inca lands. The Spanish chroniclers who wrote the first texts about the indigenous people depicted their appearance, behavior, beliefs and traditions. However, these works contain many interpretations and prejudices regarding the indigenous people who are evaluated within the European paradigm. Throughout the colonial period, the repetitive negative attributions turned into stereotypes and were reflected even in the works of the Mestizo and indigenous authors. By this point, literature has defined "us" and "others" and determined the characteristics of the indigenous identity. With the independence of Peru from the Kingdom of Spain in 1821, the "Peruvian" national identity that encompasses all segments of the society was built. In this process, the authors approached the indigenous in an inclusive but above-all manner and suggested conditions that would enable the native to be included in a homogeneous society. The indigenism movement that emerged in the 1920s handled the indigenous within its own cultural universe. The literature focuses on the indigenous' inability to integrate with the ideal of a homogeneous society and on the problem of belonging between two cultures. The new indigenism that has emerged since the 1950s conveys the silent struggle of the indigenous against the landowners and multinational corporations in the Andes in a magical realistic style. In the same years, the natives who migrated from the Andes to Lima were marginalized in urban realist works as the marginals of the big city.trPeru EdebiyatıYerli kimliğidoctoralThesis