%0 Journal Article %T Mi conciencia de m¨ª: ciudad y memoria en Santiago Waria de Elvira Hern¨¢ndez %A Pinto %A Karem %J Aisthesis %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-71812011000200011 %X this paper presents an analysis of the poetic text santiago waria (1996) i by elvira hern¨¢ndez based on two reflections: the city of santiago as a territory that stages the post-dictatorship chilean process and the identity's trajectory of the (auto)configuration of her poetic voice, which acts as a recognition of an otherness as gender in its political and ethnic difference. the analysis describes the relationship of both lines with a maverick attitude to the concertaci6n's political project; the poetic speaker provokes the opening of the national history's trauma, revealing the mechanisms of concealment while declaring the difference in her experience in a gesture that install the role of women in the writing scene as well as the revindication of the poet in their critical claims and social roles. %K chilean poetry %K women %K post-dictatorship %K memory %K city. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-71812011000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en