On the (non) closure de La Araucana

Abstract

The reaperture of the textual world of La araucana is not reduced to its service as a model to other texts which refer to the Arauco war but to the innauguration of a textual series that includes, also, the “juego de trocado” relative to the unsuccessful Spanish initiatives ––not worthy of song or memory–– but also the triumph of the indigenous people over the Spaniards. This series promotes a rewriting and discussion of the epic canon and of its unresolved formants, which is prolonged, intermittently, in Chilena literatura. Said situation can be examined advantageously with an analytic category such as “the conquest discourse”.