The fragmentary epic of champurria. reducciones by Jaime Luis Huenún

Abstract

This article makes a reading of the collection of poems by Jaime Luis Huenún Reducciones (2012), conceptualizing the meanings associated with the champurria, which we understand both as a manifestation of the edge of a language that tends towards the rationalist-hegemonic, as well as a form of a singular poetic style, and as a sign of a political position. Likewise, champurria is associated with a fragmentary writing modality and this writing is contextualized within a contemporary social climate. Finally, intertextual relationships are established between this collection of poems and the epic tradition of Chilean poetry, which moves from a traditional writing to a fragmentary writing.