Book contents
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
- Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World’s End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)
- Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche
- Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
from Part I - Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2021
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
- Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World’s End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)
- Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche
- Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Summary
The centrality of the epic poem La Araucana (1569, 1578, 1589) to Chilean culture and to representations of Chilean history, including the Mapuche people and their identity, may be difficult to grasp. The influence of the poem on literary and cultural production is pervasive: it has been the object of rewriting and citation, a source for historical works, a writing model, and a subject for vehement discussions among historians and literary critics.
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- A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 43 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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