Resumen de El mapa de luto and the Chimera of a Kharisiri State: Subjectivity, Territoriality and Literature in La senda de Kharisiri

Zoya Khan

• This article situates Dennis Morales Iriarte’s 2014 novel La senda del Kharisiri: Adela Zamudio y la Guerra del Pacífico within the context of the nineteenth-century War of the Pacific, pitting Chile versus Bolivia and Peru, and within the ongoing debate about the war’s significance in Bolivian culture and society. Morales’ Kharisiri refracts two modes of relating to the environment: an extractivist mode, rooted in global capitalism, and an autochthonous mode, emerging from relations of reciprocity. Through this polyvalence, the Kharisiri articulates a dialogue between modern and indigenous discourses, and this counterpoint illuminates the aporias of Bolivian subjectivity, statehood and territoriality.