Discoursive Deconstructions in César Calvo’s Edipo entre los inkas

Abstract

Edipo entre los inkas (César Calvo, 2001) explores connections between the traditions of the Western World and the Peruvian Orient. Calvo tries to demonstrate the inadequacy of Western Epistemology when explaining the Orient. This essay shows how the different discourses Calvo analyzes are related. The work is complex, critical, and polysemic in its structure and treatment of Western Epistemology, but presents the Oriental Epistemology from a perspective with a unique and fixed signifier. This may be considered as a limitation, but the general effort of Calvo’s work helps to generate the need to accept diversity and respect among different realities.