Elvira Hernández y su Seudoaraucana: una re-escritura insurrecta de La Araucana

Abstract

This article focuses on determining how and under what premises Elvira Hernández rewrites La Araucana at the beginning of the twenty-first century. There is a two-fold guiding hypothesis: a) a re-writing, self-defined as “pseudo,” becomes a sort of act of insurrection against the dominant Chilean (literary/political) culture and, at the same time, a replication by Hernández of Ercilla’s journey to Arauco; and b) the “seudoaraucana”, the urban-(seudo) Mapuche poetic voice, which defy the colonizing narrative of the hypotext –  and its traditional role in national culture – fully assumes the cultural and ethnic legacy of the Mapuche identity at a time when this challenges the status quo of Chilean society.