This article examines Anganamón, a seventeenth-century Mapuche leader who played a pivotal role in Chile’s colonial history. Drawing on Jesuit sources, colonial chronicles, epic poetry and visual representations, the study reconstructs the various and frequently contradictory depictions of Anganamón, from his participation in the Battle of Curalaba (1598) and the martyrdom of the Jesuits in Elicura (1612), to the textual portrayal of his character. Rather than being an anonymous indigenous subject, Anganamón emerges as a complex character: an assassin and a military chief; a symbol of resistance and a demonised figure; a barbarian and a potential Christian.
Y aquel día un indio llamado…. Anganamón en el laberinto de las letras hispanocriollas del siglo XVII
Gaune, Rafael
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Abstract
This article examines Anganamón, a seventeenth-century Mapuche leader who played a pivotal role in Chile’s colonial history. Drawing on Jesuit sources, colonial chronicles, epic poetry and visual representations, the study reconstructs the various and frequently contradictory depictions of Anganamón, from his participation in the Battle of Curalaba (1598) and the martyrdom of the Jesuits in Elicura (1612), to the textual portrayal of his character. Rather than being an anonymous indigenous subject, Anganamón emerges as a complex character: an assassin and a military chief; a symbol of resistance and a demonised figure; a barbarian and a potential Christian.
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