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RODRIGUEZ SIERRA, Ana María. The Expanded Indigenous Poetics: Audiovisuality and Transdiscursivity in Francisco Huichaqueo’s Mujeres Espíritu. En-clav. pen [online]. 2025, vol.19, n.38, pp.172-197.  Epub 04-Jul-2025. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i38.738.

In 2021, Mapuche artist Francisco Huichaqueo produced a 42-minute medium-length film titled Mujeres espíritu. In this work, the poetry and songs of five Latin American indigenous women are brought into dialogue with aesthetically treated images and sounds, thus generating a postcolonial transdiscursive work. This article shows how Huichaqueo appropriates the Western audiovisual medium and “Mapuchizes” it by calling it Azümpelontun (showing the light). This inverted appropriation of the Western creative medium serves the artist to establish a horizontal relationship with the viewers, in which the indigenous person takes the floor and invites the audience to know the original macrocosm. This macrocosm is presented as a universe of feminine spirit, which through poetic expression resists, grows, and affirms itself in its existence. Likewise, by delving into the analysis of the work, it is verified that the use of transdiscursivity is a strategy that expands the surplus meanings of the lyrical texts, which are also connected with their political meanings in which the reflection on the indigenous, the feminine, and the feminine in the indigenous are the primary theme. This leads from the recognition of the feminine experience of care, strength, and tenderness to the verification of the need for the exchange of knowledge between different cultures, to find a common path for addressing the problems that afflict the current world.

Palabras llave : indigenous poetry; contemporary indigenous art; women’s poetry; indigenous women; native cultures.

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