Literary cities in Chilean North imaginary

Abstract

Literature fictionalized space and turns it into scenes: spatial discourses come into play; owns and foreign lands, quotidian and sacred, phantasmagoric and oneiric fields. It is about fictional and recalled spaces capable to symbolize “possible places” combinations in order to unfold a prodigious geographic imaginary: Andeans altitudes and their Indian towns; huge deserts populated by salt mine office locations, the fast urban modernization process in ports whose horizons became internationals and cross-borders. These places turn into words and assume an imaginary northern character. With this, Chilean Big North has been assumed and transform into successive literary landscapes, in which men and women from this territory are recognized, specifically in this paper, from Pisagua and Pampa Unión.