Aesthetic transformations in contemporary mapuche poetry

Authors

  • Mabel García Barrera Universidad de la Frontera

Abstract

One of the meaningful problems of current Mapuche literature, from an aesthetic, intercultural and colonial perspective, lies on the persistence of the projects to strengthen a cultural stamp of their own. This process tenses the text as it moves from a mimetic dimension of the traditional art –its referential topos– in favour of the self-awareness of the writing act itself and its enunciation. In this transit, the different projects generate a dynamic literary cartography as they creatively locate themselves between an aesthetic of the sacralized and an aesthetics of otherness, from which the cultural and political territory, identity, the language, and poetry are expressions and extensions of a placement that seeks to be conceptualized in a poetic art. Some elements of this aesthetic process are addressed in the poetic projects by Cristian Cayupan, David Aniñir, and Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla.

Keywords:

Aesthetics, Mapuche, Poetic art, Interculturality, Indo-American poetry