Colorful landscapes in the writing of pre-Columbian indigenous women

Authors

  • Marjorie Huaiqui Hernández Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

This paper discusses pre-Columbian indigenous women's writing, the relationships with 'oraliture' and the written word in urban Mapuche women's narratives. It points to the role of memory, Mapuzungun and spirituality in performance, as well as the aesthetic experience of nature in landscapes that link the poetics of pre-colonial indigenous women's narratives with those of the urban present as a new anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal narrative. This continuity and (dis)continuity presents a narrative that is maintained in poetry in the urban context to this day. This acts as a cross-border position that forms the 'champurria' identity in order to relate to other peoples, and at the same time it is the performance that the Mapuche woman performs with spirituality, nature and Mapuzungun.

Keywords:

Women's writing, bodies, espirituality, nature, champurria performance