War and negative consciousness in the historical construction of the kingdom of Chile

Authors

  • Luz Ángela Martínez Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This work explores the textual space between fiction, autobiography, political discourse, and historical discourse in the specific circumstances of Chilean colonial texts, where the theme of war functions as a basis for the text and informs its subjectivity. With regard to Francisco de Pineda y Bascuñán’s Cautivero Feliz..., this piece proposes that the overlap between subjectivity, history, scripture, and war, figures in Chilean colonial dialogues as a “history of consciousness” founded in critical negativity, in such a way that the narrative setting of the War of Chile exposes a story of Modern History.

Keywords:

War of Chile, negative dialectics, modern history