The Authoritarianism, Racism and Sexism of Marcos Strobel in Lautaro Yankas's Flor Lumao (1931)

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Javier Aguirre Ortiz

Yayın yılı:

2026

Yayıncı:

European Organization for Nuclear Research

This chapter examines Lautaro Yankas's 1931 novel Flor Lumao within the historical context of late 19th-century Chilean and Argentine colonization of Mapuche territory, a process marked by military occupation, land dispossession, and genocidal violence that reduced Mapuche lands to less than 5% of their original extent and favored European settlers with fertile territories. The objective is to analyze the novel's depiction of intersecting colonial and patriarchal violence, focusing on the character Marcos Strobel as an archetype of authoritarian domination and the Mapuche woman Flor Lumao as a symbol of subjugated resistance. Employing literary analysis, the study draws on the novel's narrative, historical treaties (e.g., Treaty of Quilín, 1641; Treaty of Tapihue, 1825), and secondary sources such as Bengoa (2007), Canío and Pozo (2013), and De la Barra (1998) to unpack themes of territorial theft, racial objectification, and gendered abuse. Key results reveal Strobel's omnipotent exercise of power—through land appropriation, ordered murders, abduction, rape, and eventual disposal of Flor—perpetuating Sarmiento's civilization-barbarism dichotomy and normalizing colonial racism. Flor's abduction exploits Mapuche customs without consent, framing her resistance as futile against patriarchal desire, while the narrative's idealized descriptions of her beauty contrast with her gruesome fate, amplifying Strobel's heroic self-portrayal akin to conquistador legacies in Ercilla's *L…

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