The eloquent void: Chaco cultures, war and literature in Bolivia
Despite increasing pressure from extractive companies in the four states with jurisdiction over the region (Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil), the South American Gran Chaco is a territory where various peoples still preserve aspects of the ancestral way of life. This paper proposes an inquiry...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/42570 |
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| Sumario: | Despite increasing pressure from extractive companies in the four states with jurisdiction over the region (Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil), the South American Gran Chaco is a territory where various peoples still preserve aspects of the ancestral way of life. This paper proposes an inquiry through the narratives of the Chaco War (1932-1935), a tragic and decisive milestone for the indigenous peoples of the region, with the aim of analyzing what happened to its literary representation in Bolivia. These narratives highlight the void of representation of the voice, experience and worldview of the original inhabitants of the Gran Chaco, an issue that reinforces the pre-war imaginary of nation and cultural belonging.
In Gran Chaco, the original populations overlap, merge and hide in a dynamic way as a result of the violence to which these territories have been subjected for more than a century. The interstitial position of this region in relation to the States of which it is part is also verifiable in the field of literary studies: its representation is peripheral and is mostly neglected both in the order of national and Latin American literatures. In this sense, and due to its history and circumstances, its study requires a methodological repositioning: only by working with a corpus that exceeds the hermetic framework of literary fiction, extended to anthropological testimony, ethnographic interviews, the collection of stories or audiovisual production, it is possible to reconstruct a memory of the war that modifies and enriches the knowledge about this territory, its cultures and its history. |
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