Mapuche poetic discourse and its link with the "themes of cultural resistance"

This work studies the discursive and rhetorical strategies adopted v the current Mapuche poetical discourse deriving from a process of cultural resistance, by examining, them in the works of Rayen Kuyen, Bernardo Colipan, Graciela Huinao, and Cesar Millahuaique. It posits that these strategies are inscribed in the Mapuche discourse as all answer to a continued dialogue maintained by the cultural memory and the hegemonic discourse of the western culture. and whose origin dates back to the colonial discourse.