Entre história e literatura: uma análise da obra La Araucana e sua crítica ao colonialismo

Abstract

This work investigates the transformation of American perception of reality from the Colonization Conquest. The object of this study is the Alonso de Ercilla work, La Araucana, published in the late sixteenth century. When necessary we compare it with the narratives of those who participated directly or indirectly of discovery and conquest of America and Chile, specifically. We believe the conquest of Chile is one of the borderline cases in the \"American Adventure\" and their research, when using as sources the narratives already produced, we can explain how they were experienced, perceived and meant the changes occurred in the conquest processes. We believe that a careful reading of Ercilla\'s work allows us to understand the critique of Colonialism. For both called into question the justification of European presence in America. For development of this analysis, we place the work of Ercilla in his time, analyzing the canons in force at the time, especially the sixteenth century poetry. In addition, we studied the construction of the poem and its main responsible characters, with its moral and physical characterizations and especially with his speeches. We study it for presenting that face criticism of colonial processes that were taking place. We conclude this study about readings of the work carried out in the seventeenth that discussed and proposed solutions to the araucana question\" and its projection in the constitution of the republican Nation State of Chile in the nineteenth century.