Mi conciencia de mí: ciudad y memoria en Santiago Waria de Elvira Hernández

this paper presents an analysis of the poetic text santiago waria (1996) i by elvira hernández 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.