Re-signifiying Collective Identity trough Orality: Dreams and Memory in Leonel Lienlaf‘s “Kogen”

Abstract

This article is part of the research process that seeks to identify, in some Mapuche poetic works such as the poetic text Kogen (2014), the mapuche poet Leonel Lienlaf, certain referential elements such as singing, memory and dreams through which Poetic discourses are committed to the recovery of collective identity. The results of the analysis and interpretation show that the speaking subject present in this poetic text, exposes a process of resignification of the collective identity of the Mapuche culture through the updating of spaces of memory housed in dreams and in the presence of songs, expression of poetic orality, registered in the written text, by means of scriptural textual marks. In this way, orality, memory and dreams are three bonds that, in the lyrical discourse, are found and knotted, allowing with it to recover and keep alive that identity.

Keywords: Resignification - collective identity - songs - orality - memory - dreams.