Racialized Narratives and Politics of Memory in the Testimony of an afrodescendant in Chile

Abstract

This paper aims to put in Chilean literary historiography a manuscript found in the Valley of Azapa (Arica), which summarizes various literary events as décimas, songs and testimonies written by an African American farmer from the early twentieth century. So far, no finding relating to this documentary, so this article is intended, from a biopolitics lecture, build an initial theoretical input to the manuscript platform for future research in the field of cultural and literary studies. Not only is it interesting what is sounds in this group of compositions as rescue popular literary tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; but also, it implies the need to take and build a theoretical locus incorporating marginalized subjectivities by the national narrative subjectivities through racialization processes that sustain the politics of memory in Chile.