THE REPUBLIC OF COELEMU AND THE NATION’S UNREST. LOCAL ENCODINGS IN ANDRÉS GALLARDO’S LA NUEVA PROVINCIA

Abstract

The article explores the configuration of space and, specifically, of the peripheral territory in Andrés Gallardo’s novel La nueva provincia, originally published in 1987 and reissued in 2015. Based on Gaspar Cifuentes’ autonomous proposals, and the other characters, a differentiated and closed way of acting that compromises the uniqueness of the hegemonic model of spacing, creating anomalous relationships between the center and the periphery, is suggested. Despite the reduced emission context where they deploy their provincial system, the autonomists from Coelemu manage to transcend the dominant view that used to reduce them to a mere lag, an epigonal microcosm or a distant echo of what happened in the Chilean metropolis.