Para una entrada en la imaginación poética alimentaria chilena

Authors

  • Magda Sepúlveda Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

Food and drink recreated in the Chilean poetry offer an alternative space to reflect upon ethnic matters, social class, gender and political violence. Every topoi defines a food route where stories have their say. In this way, we find four main routes: those in which writing priviledges the construction of native communities around food preparation; those in which aesthetical projects elaborate their rural patrimony around food to defend themselves from centralized domination; those whose symbols construct and deconstruct cannibalistic desires among different intersubjectivities and those whose linguistic ancestry make hunger a motif of political discontent either by imagining abundance in the land of milk and honey or by elaborating the hunger of gods who demand human sacrifices.

Keywords:

Chilean Poetry, food and drink, mapuche, gender