Indigenous Cultures in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral

The article explores the way in which indigenous culture and textuality are incorporated to Mistral's poetics, especially her religiosity, based on the comparative analysis of representative poems that range from Ternura to Poema de Chile. Through them, we characterized two ways in which Mistral integrates her eclectic world view of indigenous elements in a traditional or modern fashion. It was also noted, an appropriation that goes far beyond the Indian literary and epochal that chooses, aesthetics and ethically, for a specific original culture: the Quechua, especially in their cosmologies, worldviews and textual.