Literary manifestations of the worker-satirical press in the coal mining area of Chile (Coronel, 1904-1906)

Abstract

This article is based on the assertion that the worker-satirical poetry of the coal communities of Chile -specifically of the locality of Coronel-, as a literary manifestation of the late 19^th century and the first decades of the 20^th century, not only configures a representation of the mining experience of that period, but also constitutes a bridge between literature, historical memory and cultural identity of the coal area. These expressions are found in the publications of the workers' and worker-satirical press of the time and make possible a detailed study of the popular literary process generated in the mining basin. In light of this, the main objective of this work is to study the worker-satirical poems through the review of the journals in order to expose qualitatively the practices and forms of literary production of the mining community in the coal area at the beginning of the 20^th century. To achieve this, the theoretical support of this article is based on authors such as Mathew Hodgart (1969), Marcela Orellana (2006) and Jesús Martín-Barbero (1991).