Lives that deserve to be cried. A philosophical reading of "Inakayal" by Adrián Moyano

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to share the thoughts which came from the presentation and reading of Adrian Moyano’s book titled A In plead to my superior chief (A ruego de mi superior cacique, Antonio Modesto Inakayal) articulated with some categories from Judith Butler’s performative theory of genderized subject. This analysis’ main thesis is that both creating an idea of mourning as a process and the sharing of the tears of a life that deserve to be cried, become a political resource, in that they construct identifications and community. In the book, corpus of the present analysis, the author puts into words the experience of Longko Inakayal, recovering voices and sources that have been silenced and hidden for reasons of the dominant powers, thus showing the space of historical silence. It dismantles the colonial narrative which still circulates in schools and in the common sense of our society, opening our thought to other possible ways of living and practicing politics. It questions the authority of the imposed official maps, creating a new cartography which gives room to a territory of social practices which we could call intercultural. It offers an embodied narrative which explains the loss of a way of life caused by the genocide perpetrated against the Mapuche People, and the situations of violence and extermination of the past which explain situations of racism and discrimination in the present time. Mourning, as the public process of the elaboration of loss, requires to grow socially, in that, following Butler’s line of thought, without the recognition of the lives which deserved to be cried there will be no conditions that will allow us to society to know more of who we are and how we change with respect to our grief.