“PATH IS MADE WHEN WALKING”: POEMA DE CHILE AND LOS REINOS DORADOS

Abstract

Comparative study of the works Poema de Chile, by the Chilean Gabriela Mistral, published in 1967, and Los Reinos Dorados, by the Bolivian Homero Carvalho, published in 2007, in the light of the epic theory of discourse, by Silva, and reflections on the historical-geographical displacement as dual form of self-knowledge and mapping of the homeland, highlighting the role of the guide The approach, through a dialogue with some specialists, will take into account the tradition of colonizing expansionism, opposing it to nationalist expansionism, highlighting the characteristics of the two Latin American epic poems and the rescue of an epos that carries out the symbolic erasure of the conquest of the land by the warlike and acculturating force to put on stage the mythical rescue of Mother Earth and Mother Water, that results from trips motivated by the simultaneously loving and critical encounter with the Chilean homeland and the Bolivian homeland, respectively.
KEYWORDS: Epic. Expansionism. Los Reinos Dorados. Poema de Chile. Guide.