Re-Mapping the "Shitopolis of Santiagony"

David Aniñir's Proposal for a Borderized Mapuche Identity

Authors

  • Sara Luco Leiden University

Abstract

In the collection of poems Mapurbe: Venganza a raíz (Urban Mapuche: Rooted Vengeance, Pehuén, 2009) by the indigenous Chilean author David Aniñir, a renewed Mapuche-Indian identitary discourse is being created through re-mapping the Chilean capital of Santiago and its Mapuche inhabitants from a Thirdspace perspective. Aniñir provides an alternative view on Chilean urban life and the place of indigenous population in it. By doing so he disrupts the dominant Chilean discourse on Mapuche-Indian identity, creating a narrative that proposes an emphasis on hybridity instead of the clearly marked identitary boundaries expressed by the hegemonic Chilean discourse.

Author Biography

  • Sara Luco, Leiden University

    Sara Luco (1984) has recently graduated from the research master Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Leiden University. She has specialized in expressions of identity, modernity and interculturality in indigenous Latin American literatures and to that end has conducted research in Chile.

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2012): Narrating Posthumanism

Section

Masterclass

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How to Cite

Luco, S. (2026). Re-Mapping the "Shitopolis of Santiagony": David Aniñir’s Proposal for a Borderized Mapuche Identity. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 25(1), 81-93. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27442