Üllawtun and canonical plost in the contemporany mapuche narrativ: Graciela Huinao’s proyects

Abstract

From an interculturality perspective and coming of larger investigation this paper deals with the contemporary Mapuche history, how western literary genres -tale, novel, biography, testimony, or others- dialogue at a canonical level with the ancestral Mapuche discourses -Pentukün, Piam, Epew y Nütram-, forming part of the same textual framework. Specifically, we review its operation at the global level of Graciela Huinao’s literary project. It concludes that from an üllawtun aesthetic -contempt- articulates the scriptural organization of her work with the aim of the deconstructing colonial structures, including those of the western genre. With this purpose, she resorts to the mechanism of “inversion” by juxtaposing genres and discourses; articulating the genres of western tradition through the “Simulacro de Biografía” (Walinto 2001) through the relationship “fiction-history”, while the latter operate through the discursive network protocolized by the rakizuam -Mapuche thought- in the relationship “truth- history”, thereby challenging the author-reader relationship.