The reservations in Reducciones by Jaime Luis Huenún

Abstract

The western paradigm fixed by the hegemonic culture of the official discourse in history has depicted the peripheral condition of the Mapuche subaltern culture. The poetic text ''Reducciones" (Reservations) by the poet Huenûn if mainly refers to the Mapuche culture "reduced" in the reservations, it also conveys the peripheral constituents given by the dominant culture, which have been transformed and given a new meaning of identity by the many voices provided by the new hybrid status and conscience. The present work watches that the imposed "reservation" opens itself into a new space of woven contradict signs which map and restate the sense of hybrid discussing the way this new place looks like, its actual meaning, and text production.