GEO-ERÓTICA: EMBODINGS OF TERRITORY IN CHILEAN CRIOLLISMO

Abstract

The article examines the imbrications of space and sexuality during the criollista peak, pointing to the persistence of an axiological model whose effect is upright the couple center-periphery. Capable of imposing in front of other classification criteria –as race, gender and social class– “geo-status” controls the perspective of authors and diegetic agents, to reconcile with purposes of exhibition, expansion and extraction of the nation. The order which determines the contacts between metropolis and wilderness, or between natives and outsiders, is reintroduced in a cultural and heterogeneous process, suggested to call territorial fiction.