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- Title
ETHNOGENESIS OR NEOINDIGENOUS INTELLIGENTSIA.
- Authors
Park, James
- Abstract
The ethnic-cultural (re)naissance in Chile is currently undergoing an expansion as well as a diversification along lines of minority cultures and gender differentiations. Since the explosion onto the Chilean literary landscape of the bilingual poet Leonel Lienlaf in 1989, Mapuche-Huilliche writers have come into the spotlight of academia, state, and popular culture critics. Younger generations of Huilliche poets are distinguishing themselves through a hybrid, reflexive, and literary expressiveness. In opposition to the poetry that is tied to indigenous cultural institutions, orality, and traditional rural forms of existence, these poets thrive and strive for a pluricultural and complex way of living and expressing themselves. This work explores a selection of poets and their individual circumstances in an attempt to delineate the differences within and between these poets and the more traditional ones, and suggest a greater cultural change that is coming about in south Chile.
- Subjects
CHILE; CHILEAN literature; CHILEAN poets; HUILLICHE (South American people); LIENLAF, Leonel; POPULAR culture; MINORITIES; SOCIAL change; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2007, Vol 42, Issue 3, p15
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lar.2007.0043