Yo no soy una conversa: Gabriela Mistral y su tensión a los paradigmas espirituales.

This article examines the configuration of Gabriela Mistral's heterodox religiosity through her critical engagement with the spiritual paradigms of early twentieth-century Chilean institutional Christianity. In dialogue with Edward Said's concept of worldliness and Raymond Williams's notion of struc...

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Published in:Nomadías no. 34; pp. 223 - 237
Main Author: LIRA OLIVARES, CAMILA
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Published: Universidad de Chile dic2025
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        Said, Edward W., 1935-2003
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        This article examines the configuration of Gabriela Mistral's heterodox religiosity through her critical engagement with the spiritual paradigms of early twentieth-century Chilean institutional Christianity. In dialogue with Edward Said's concept of worldliness and Raymond Williams's notion of structures of feeling, it argues that Mistralian spirituality is constructed as a dynamic system of beliefs, deeply situated in lived experience and shaped by errancy, a profound bond with nature, and an early and sustained reading of the biblical text, as well as by Eastern influences and local forms of knowledge. Through the analysis of poems, prose texts, prayers, and intimate records related to death and suicide-particularly in relation to Romelio Ureta and her adopted son Yin Yin--the article explores how Mistral subverts orthodox notions of guilt, salvation, and transcendence. It contends that her writing displaces religious ritual into the intimate and domestic sphere, articulating a spirituality grounded in compassion, mourning, and insistent prayer, which challenges the normative discourses of the Catholic tradition and proposes an embodied, non-dogmatic spiritual ethics.
        Este artículo analiza la configuración de la religiosidad heterodoxa de Gabriela Mistral a partir de su relación crítica con los paradigmas espirituales del cristianismo institucional chileno de comienzos del siglo XX. En diálogo con los conceptos de mundanidad de Edward Said y estructuras del sentimiento de Raymond Williams, se propone que la espiritualidad mistraliana se construye como un sistema dinámico de creencias, profundamente situado en su experiencia vital, atravesado por la errancia, el vínculo con la naturaleza y una lectura temprana y persistente del texto bíblico, así como por influencias orientales y saberes locales. A partir del análisis de poemas, prosas, oraciones y registros íntimos vinculados a la muerte y el suicidio -especialmente en relación con Romelio Ureta y su hijo adoptivo Yin Yin-, se examina cómo Mistral subvierte nociones ortodoxas de culpa, salvación y trascendencia. El artículo sostiene que su escritura desplaza el ritual religioso hacia el espacio íntimo y doméstico, articulando una espiritualidad fundada en la compasión, el duelo y la plegaria insistente, que tensiona los discursos normativos de la tradición católica y propone una ética espiritual encarnada y no dogmática.
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