El mito como forma de romper con la lógica patriarcal y colonial en la obra poética de Roxana Miranda Rupailaf

Abstract

This paper examines how Chilean poetess of Mapuche descent, Roxana Miranda Rupailaf, uses myth and intertextuality to expose the double oppression - patriarchal and colonial - suffered by women in contemporary Latin-American society. In her collections Las Tentaciones de Eva (2003), Seducción de los venenos (2008) and Shumpall (2011), she rewrites mythical narratives from the Judeo-Christian tradition or the Mapuche cosmogony by subverting gender stereotypes, in order to condemn the patriarchy’s control over women’s bodies and desire. She also claims a form of cultural syncretism, transcending the binarism of the dominant European culture to celebrate the complexity of her mixed identity. The motif of the snake, central in her work, symbolizes this ambiguity praised in an act of resistance against Western values.