INSERCIÓN DEL ARTE DE LA PALABRA Y COSMOVISIÓN DE LOS PUEBLOS ORIGINARIOS EN LA LITERATURA INFANTIL CHILENA: EL LEGADO MAPUCHE

Abstract

Abstract:

This work is an approach to Chilean children's literature as an access to the social imaginary of the original peoples, focusing the attention in literary artistic expressions and Mapuche world. We present a brief view of Mapuche stories and the author literature that addresses the indigenous issue in literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. With the purpose to know if the works transmit the former spirituality, it is analyzed one of the most recognized and symbolic figures in the Mapuche social imaginary and that is presented mainly in the stories: The machi, spiritual leader and shaman, shamana. It is unveiled  how the forms of representation differ or resemble the  ancestral knowledge and the sources on which they were based.

Keywords: Children's literature, social imaginary, original peoples, adaptations, Mapuche stories, indigenous literature, symbol, shaman, shamana.