Lof ñi nütxam: community of the voice in the Contemporary Mapuche Narrative from the Fütawillimapu

Abstract

Lof ñi Nütxam. Community of the Voice in the Contemporary Mapuche Narrative of the Fütawillimapu is a study on the Contemporary Mapuche-williche Narrative and its relations with the nütxam or conversation that, due to its long extension, goes back to history. This work seeks to reveal the links that exist between the works of Graciela Huinao and Bernardo Colipán with the nütxam to exemplify how the current Mapuche narrative, which arises from an oral basis, positions a counter-hegemonic narrative to question the point of view that the official history exposes about the process of formation of the Chilean nation-state. That is why dispossession and colonial violence are denounced from the williche cultural keys found in the feyentun (beliefs) and azmapu (customs). At the same time, the author exposes the nütxam that she establishes while carrying out this research with different characters, which allows her to reconstruct her life story as a Mapuche-Williche woman, thus revealing how the nütxam is transformed into a memory reconstruction methodology.