Poetics and Politics in Fredy Chikangana. A transcultural Identity of the Andean

Abstract

This paper propases an approach to the poems of Fredy Chikangana, who presents in his work a transcultural image of the 'indigenous identity' from Yanakuna peoples. This lyrical vision in the Espíritu de pájaro en pozos del ensueño and Colibrí de la noche desnuda is an interpretation of the andean world. The analysis examines the interaction of two main themes in the construction of the 'indigenous identity": migration and "re-indigenization" as an attempt to renew the worldwide, tradition and memory in a reconstruction of the mythologized space and an ecologic vision of the indigenous.