Piñen
Short stories, Indigenous peoples fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"The word piñen comes from Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, and refers to dust or dirt clinging to the body. A word that has been used in a pejorative way in Chile to refer to racialized people or… people from a low social background. Daniela Catrileo makes this word her own and reclaims it, as part of the oral memory of an oppressed people, of a common testimony, resignifying it. This book contains three stories set in the urban and social outskirts. The author speaks to us from that place, about what it means to be a woman and to grow up in those spaces beyond the hegemonic representations that exist of the popular classes and the native peoples settled in the outskirts of Chilean cities. Three stories in which poetry and violence, the body and the symbolic, the personal and the collective, intertwine in a gesture of existence and resistance." -- Translation provided by NLS