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Analysis of the poetry of Mapuche author Leonel Lienlaf as a form of resistance and agency from the graphic and sonic as well as the linguistic and literary re-territorialization of Mapudungun, the Mapuche language

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Sound studies; acoustic colonialism; indigenous poetry; indigenous politics and agency.

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This article is part of my research on sound, language and territory in the context of contemporary Mapuche culture and politics in Chile and Argentina. It engages the question of what I call "acoustic colonialism" and indigenous agency.

Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante
The University of Texas at Austin

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This page is a summary of: No +WingkaWord, Radical History Review, January 2016, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-3159997.
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