Resumen

VALIENTE, Silvia. "I am criollo like a campfire, as life wanted it": Analysis from "likeness" of the chaco-salteño from the folklore proposal of Oscar "chaqueño" Palavecino. Rev. Univ. geogr. [online]. 2008, vol.17, n.1, pp. 55-81. ISSN 1852-4265.

This paper presents the results of a research whose objective was to show how the Chaco-Salteño folkloric song book exhibits meanings settled on other ways of life linked to the private sphere, from which the "we" is expressed appealing to different adscriptions. Thus, when saying "I am criollo like a campfire, as life wanted it", the narrator places himself in relation to that narrative by means of his practices and ways of life. Here the narrator defines his identity taking position before discursive elements coming from other voices he keeps re-centering in his discourse. Those other voices derive from the hegemonic (national) construction of reality, before which the narrator takes position and elaborates a discourse that intends to unmark the local subjects from stigmatized visions derived from imaginaries produced in the centers of power. In this way, he intends to raise the voices of local subordinate subjects, whose lives are crossed by poverty and relegation, mediatizing in the narrative their claims and placing it before an audience. The singer-authors take those negative markings to elaborate counter-stigmatizations, and thus, showing alternative identities that have not been as a whole sub-plunged in a historical process modeled ideologically and culturally from top to bottom. From there, a national identity was elaborated with pretensions of universality. In this way, the analyzed song book highlights the Spanish element of the so-called first cultural matrix of Argentina made up by the Hispanic-Indigenous mixing of races (Martínez Sarasola, C. 1992). In short, this article presents how the folkloric narrative condenses and articulates diverse markings of the "likeness" and of the "otherness" agreeing with a historical-structural position of the identity, by means of the technique: discourse analysis.

Palabras llave : Narrative; Counter-stigmatizations; Historical-structural Position of the Identity.