Abstract

REYNOSO, Christian. Subalternity and hegemony in the comic strips of Demetrio Peralta: Pedrito, el indiecito estudiante and El bandolero fantasma. Desde el Sur [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.2, pp.183-200. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/DES-1102-2019-183-200.

Demetrio Peralta was an artist who left behind a littleknown and undervalued body of work. His first works appeared in Boletín Titikaka, in the late twenties, and display the influence of the southern Peruvian avant-garde. Later, he produced comic strips, illustrations, oil paintings and ceramic tile drawings. In recent years, a series of studies have been published in an effort to reevaluate and popularize his work. This essay focuses on the two comic strips he published in 1940-1941, in the magazine Palomilla: Pedrito, el indiecito estudiante and El bandolero fantasma. Our analysis, rather than addressing the graphic and artistic aspects of Peralta’s work, focuses on the development and evolution of the characters in both comic strips, Pedrito and Silverio, from the perspective of the notions of subalternity and hegemony discussed in the work of Gayatri Spivak. We will see how both characters, however subordinate they may be, acquire a voice and traits that identify them as "atypical", thereby enabling a reversal of roles as they transition towards the hegemonic space.

Keywords : Demetrio Peralta; comic strips; subalternity; hegemony.

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