Estrangement in two contemporary mapuche poets: Chihuailaf and Lienlaf

Abstract

This paper examines both in its verbal and territorial aspects of estrangement as a recurrent element present in the Mapuche writers Leonel Lienlaf and Elicura Chihuailaf. De la pérdida al encuentro sets up the pendulum movement that leads the poetical word of these two bilingual writers as well as the silence, space and abyss which take shape in the unsayable and untranslatable identity in the context of intercultural relationships.