El discurso histórico de Gabriel Salazar. Las claves discursivas

Abstract

The present study deals with Gabriel Salazar's historical work focusing on the descriptive and interpretative analysis of the elements that seem to be the most relevant in his historical discourse. This article presents an analysis based on historical discourse, allowing us to comprehend not only the author's historical perspective, but also the logical and hermeneutical criteria that are present in his work. This article intends to describe three of Salazar's works: Ser niño huacho en la historia de Chile, Del corral de la fonderas al Palacio de Gobierno. El entierro social del oro mercantil y Labradorys, peones y proletarios. The analysis is structured upon three issues that form the basis of this new history for Chile, which incorporates other views of historical reality and visualizes the prospective criteria of three of his works as historiographical expressions aiming at regaining the history of the poor and social outcasts of Chilean society, with a perspective from "down under", which displays them as protagonists of their own history. In summary, this work's central thesis is that Gabriel Salazar's historical discourse is not only an innovative writing exercise, but also a call for democratization of history, a contribution in the sense that it reveals a new way of comprehending the historical being and a definition of some ideological clues and of word representations. Salazar's work introduces new options of historical investigation which make it possible to help build a society with more equality.