Palimpsestical reading of Palimpsesto by Juan Paulo Huirimilla

Abstract

This writing pretends to show that unlike other writers of mapuche origin, the writings of Juan Pablo Huirimilla have an divided identity. This characteristic is shown consciously in his poetry writings. This degree of consciousness is expressed through rhetoric strategies used by the author, such as the Palimpsest (in the transtextual sense of Genette and semiotic of Barbero), the special multiplicity, the ostentation and the use of text author as subject and object of his writing. After an exhaustive bibliographical revision, his main writing is analyzed, palimpsesto, emphasizing his divergent position in relation to the community identity and ethnocentric demands by other mapuche poets.