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 +====== Jetman, Haylli (Ode to the Jet Plane) by José María Arguedas ======
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-====== Jetman, Haylli (Ode to the Jet Plane) by José María Arguedas ====== 
  
 In the anthology //Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present//, Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada include a translation of José María Arguedas’ poem “Jetman, Haylli (Ode to the Jet Plane)” from Arguedas’ poetry collection titled //Katatay//. In the anthology //Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present//, Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada include a translation of José María Arguedas’ poem “Jetman, Haylli (Ode to the Jet Plane)” from Arguedas’ poetry collection titled //Katatay//.
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   * Listen to the Poem: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8AduibpGI|BICENTENARIO OLVIDO / Capítulo VI: José María Arguedas. Jetman, haylli (Oda al Jet)]]   * Listen to the Poem: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8AduibpGI|BICENTENARIO OLVIDO / Capítulo VI: José María Arguedas. Jetman, haylli (Oda al Jet)]]
  
-  * Read //Katatay// Online: [[https://www.casadelaliteratura.gob.pe/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Katatay.pdf|Katatay PDF]]+  * Read //Katatay// Online in Quechua and Spanish: [[https://www.casadelaliteratura.gob.pe/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Katatay.pdf|Katatay PDF]]
  
 ===== Katatay ===== ===== Katatay =====
-Written between 1962 and 1969 and published posthumously in 1972, this collection of 7 poems is regarded as the origin of modern Quechua poetry in Peru. Its title means "to tremble" (as in an earthquake) because the poems reflect both cultural changes and innovations in language, which Arguedas called "indigenous vanguardism".    +Written between 1962 and 1969 and published posthumously in 1972, this collection of 7 poems is regarded as the origin of modern Quechua poetry in Peru. Its title means "to tremble" (as in an earthquake) because the poems reflect both cultural changes and innovations in language, which Arguedas called "indigenous vanguardism". ((Arguedas, José María. Katatay. Casa de la Literatura Peruana, 2020, https://www.casadelaliteratura.gob.pe/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Katatay.pdf. Accessed 26 March 2025.))  
 Arguedas wrote the poems using several Quechua dialects and also translated them into Spanish,"in christian and in indian", in his own words, thus creating a bridge between those two languages and becoming a "cultural mediator" in his first attempt at poetry.  Arguedas wrote the poems using several Quechua dialects and also translated them into Spanish,"in christian and in indian", in his own words, thus creating a bridge between those two languages and becoming a "cultural mediator" in his first attempt at poetry. 
-His use of the poetic subject //wakey runa// (//hermano//, 'brother') can be interpreted as individual or collective, expressing human suffering as a search for meaning that brings nature, men, and gods together in poems that provide an indigenous view of important socio-political moments in history. +His use of the poetic subject //wakey runa// (//hermano//, 'brother') can be interpreted as individual or collective, expressing human suffering as a search for meaning that brings nature, men, and gods together in poems that provide an indigenous view of important socio-political moments in history. ((Mancosu, Paola. “Hacia una aproximación ontológica en los Estudios de Traducción: El caso de José María Arguedas.” Meta, volume 67, number 2, august 2022, p. 337–355. https://doi.org/10.7202/1096259ar))
  
 ===== A Note on the English Translation ===== ===== A Note on the English Translation =====
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 The Spanish version (Oda al Jet) is longer than the Quechua version (Jetman, haylli) because when Arguedas rewrites the poem he often adds paraphrases that explain and add to the meaning of the verse in Quechua, attempting, in his own words, “a true, non-literary translation” that avoids elements that are not present in the text in Quechua.  The Spanish version (Oda al Jet) is longer than the Quechua version (Jetman, haylli) because when Arguedas rewrites the poem he often adds paraphrases that explain and add to the meaning of the verse in Quechua, attempting, in his own words, “a true, non-literary translation” that avoids elements that are not present in the text in Quechua. 
-He also incorporates culturally foreign terms into Quechua. For example, when the lyrical speaker invokes the Trinity in Quechua (“Dios Yaya, Dios churi, Dios Espíritu Santo”), there is an indigenization of these Christian symbols: //Dios Yaya// literally translates as ‘man/woman of God’, but it appears as //Dios Padre// in Spanish; //churi// is literally ‘son of the father’, but it is translated as //Dios hijo//. +He also incorporates culturally foreign terms into Quechua. For example, when the lyrical speaker invokes the Trinity in Quechua (“Dios Yaya, Dios churi, Dios Espíritu Santo”), there is an indigenization of these Christian symbols: //Dios Yaya// literally translates as ‘man/woman of God’, but it appears as //Dios Padre// in Spanish; //churi// is literally ‘son of the father’, but it is translated as //Dios hijo//. ((Mudarra Montoya, Américo. 2009. «“Oda Al Jet” De José María Arguedas O La Conflictiva apropiación De La Modernidad». Escritura Y Pensamiento 12 (25):55-62.))
  
  
 ===== Poem's Structure & Themes ===== ===== Poem's Structure & Themes =====
-The poem has the expressive tone of a pre-Hispanic Quechua song and its lyrical speaker voices admiration for a modern object, the jet plane, using animal and nature metaphors –distinctive features of Quechua culture– to describe it: “wind-fish”, “swallow-fish of wind”, “flying fire”, “golden-and-heavenly- swallow”, “immense snow-bird”.  +The poem has the expressive tone of a pre-Hispanic Quechua song and its lyrical speaker voices admiration for a modern object, the jet plane, using animal and nature metaphors –distinctive features of Quechua culture– to describe it: “wind-fish”, “swallow-fish of wind”, “flying fire”, “golden-and-heavenly- swallow”, “immense snow-bird”. ((Mudarra Montoya, Américo. 2009. «“Oda Al Jet” De José María Arguedas O La Conflictiva apropiación De La Modernidad». Escritura Y Pensamiento 12 (25):55-62.))
  
 ===== Key Terms & Possible Interpretations ===== ===== Key Terms & Possible Interpretations =====

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