Contemporary Mapuche poetry: identity, community, and body

The Secretariat for Research, Science, and Technology and the Secretariat for Graduate Studies of the FFyH have published, in open access, the e-book Contemporary Mapuche Poetry: Identity, Community, and Body, by María Fernanda Libro.

The research presented here takes as its object of study one of the most striking aesthetic productions of recent Latin American literature: Mapuche poetry. The emergence of these writings in the literary field, mainly since the 1990s, requires a broadening of cultural inquiries in general, and of literary criticism in particular, based on the emergence of a voice that had previously been confined to the realm of indigenous literature.

María Fernanda Libro holds a degree in Modern Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC) and a PhD in Literature from the same institution. She was a CONICET doctoral fellow (2016-2021), with the project “The divided experience: poetic traces in contemporary Mapuche writing,” research based at the CIFFyH. Since 2010, she has been continuously involved in research projects related to recent Latin American writing.