GABRIELA MISTRAL: SELF-EXILE, CIRCLE DANCES, NOTES AND EXPERIENCES PUT INTO CIRCULATION AS A FORM OF EDUCATION

ABSTRACT

In this work, we try to understand Gabriela Mistral's self-exile as a fundamental experience in her life, which allowed her to create movements understood metaphorically in the figure of circle dances. The circles appear as a possibility of reinterpreting, in symbolic and political terms, the figure and work developed by Mistral, once they allow to put in tension some of the official readings that were made of them. The circles are understood as a space of resistance, where Mistral joined different voices (foreign voices and her own) to create the songs and to be able to dance in this union with other people, establishing different connections, through her travels, interactions, writing of herself and from messages as notes that she delivered at the circles, which transmitted her experiences and also sent invitations to feel, to reflect and to circulate.

Keywords:
Gabriela Mistral; self-exile; circle dances; experiences; education