La narrativa de la nación en el discurso poético mapuche. Prolegómenos de una literatura nacional

Authors

  • Mabel García Barrera Universidad de la Frontera

Abstract

Within the framework of communicative/discursive production with which the Mapuche people reflects on their current cultural contact with Western Chilean society, this article addresses the construction of a narrative of the Mapuche nation, specifically through textualization processes of current poetic discourse. It is argued that this narrative refers to and is characterized by textual transmitter’s processes of self-identification linked to the recognition of a Mapuche national identity, the symbolic dimension of an imaginary construct of nation, the construction of national borders, and a predominantly intracultural discursive orientation, from which arises an ongoing debate regarding the possibility of an emerging national literature.

Keywords:

Poetry, Mapuche, narrative, nation, national literature