Nación y discurso en Khirkhilas de la sirena de Gamaliel Churata

In Khirkhilas de la sirena, Gamaliel Churata continues to rethink, after El pez de oro(1957) and Resurrección de los muertos (2010), an idea of nation, capable of confronting a nationalist discourse rootedin aesthetic and cultural homogeneity. In this way, Churata’s proposal, through an innovative language andre-signified Andean poetic forms, intervenes in redrawing ontological and political coordinates capable ofovercoming true ’myths’, such as, for example, the supposed ’death’ of the indigenous cultural legacy or thenotion of ’race’. In this process of (re)identification with the indigenous, the feminine, symbolised in thepoem by the mermaid, acquires a profound importance in cultural and linguistic transmission. The presenttext aims, therefore, to investigate how poetry not only becomes a compass for social identity orientation, butalso becomes an essential tool for reformulating an idea of nation that has declined to the plural