{"title":"The Entangled History of Ale-Quillén: Imagining the Indigenous Woman in Nineteenth-Century Chile","authors":"Michelle Prain-Brice, Jennifer Hayward","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2023.a937152","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay examines the cultural transfer of the Ale-Quillén myth through nineteenth-century Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture, illuminating the shifting narratives surrounding Chile's Indigenous Mapuche people. Originating as a tragic romance justifying Chilean military expansion, the myth was reimagined by the Anglo-Chilean newspaper the <i>Star of Chile</i> as a New Woman bildungsroman that omitted the original tale's settler-colonial context. These variant accounts expose Chile's internal conflicts over Indigenous representation, as well as broader Anglo-Chilean perspectives on settler colonialism. Through the lens of entangled history, the essay argues that these narratives ultimately erase Mapuche Indigeneity by appropriating and romanticizing Indigenous voices.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Victorian Periodicals Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2023.a937152","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay examines the cultural transfer of the Ale-Quillén myth through nineteenth-century Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture, illuminating the shifting narratives surrounding Chile's Indigenous Mapuche people. Originating as a tragic romance justifying Chilean military expansion, the myth was reimagined by the Anglo-Chilean newspaper the Star of Chile as a New Woman bildungsroman that omitted the original tale's settler-colonial context. These variant accounts expose Chile's internal conflicts over Indigenous representation, as well as broader Anglo-Chilean perspectives on settler colonialism. Through the lens of entangled history, the essay argues that these narratives ultimately erase Mapuche Indigeneity by appropriating and romanticizing Indigenous voices.