In 1860, the Frenchman Orélie Antoine de Tounens proclaimed himself King of Araucanía and Patagonia with the support and acknowledgement of some Mapuche chiefs. The attempt to establish a French kingdom in the territory of Araucanía is today often regarded as a strange adventure that contested Chile’s project of integrating this region into the national territory. In this context, the venture has been studied, above all, from a historical or biographical perspective. However, Tounens’ texts have not been approached in a way that pays attention to the discursive aspects and topics in his description of Araucanía and its people. The present work proposes a reading of his texts under the parameters of the colonial and the postcolonial, and asks itself about the construction of otherness.
Keywords:
King of Araucanía, colonial discourse, independence discourse, otherness, cultural transgression
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Wehrheim, M. (2014). "L’Araucanien est une sorte de centaure". Orélie Antoine de Tounens and his Texts on the Araucanía. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (3), Pág. 109–129. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2014.33387
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