Rhetoric and Emotion in “The Vengeance of a Barbarian” by Miguel Luis Amunátegui

 

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Authors: Aguayo Rodríguez, Eduardo, Carrasco Lavandero, Sebastián, Ferrada Quichel, César
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2023
Description:This study deals with the figuration of «savage Araucanian» as a figure of otherness for the Chilean modernizing project of the late nineteenth century, analyzing the articulation of "The revenge of a barbarian" (1876), a traditional story by the writer and historian Miguel Luis Amunátegui, with intercultural romance through affective rhetoric. It is proposed that the representation of the mapuche and its articulation with the impeded romance between lovers of different cultures aimed, in the case of Amunátegui, to transfer the legislative battle that supported military occupation of the Araucaria towards the heart of the emerging popular readers, appealing to a game of sympathy and rejection that would sentimentally justify Chilean domination over the Araucanía and its inhabitants.
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/53223
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/53223
Keyword:Chilean narrative
XIX century
Miguel Luis Amunátegui
rhetoric
romance
emotion
narrativa chilena
siglo XIX
retórica
emoción