CANTO GENERAL E SOUTH AMERICA MI HIJA: UM OLHAR SOBRE “ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU”

“Alturas de Macchu Picchu”, second book from the poem by Pablo Neruda Canto General (1950), is, according to critics, the best known of the epic. The writer Sharon Doubiago, in South America Mi Hija (1992), makes with such book an intertextual dialogue from which stand out similarities and differences, that is why the purpose of this study is to investigate some of the resonances that this dialogue provides. For this purpose, bibliographic research was made based on authors such as La Vega (1604), Steel (1967), Alegría (1981), Kirk (1993), Santí (2011), among others, and the presentation and analysis of excerpts from corpora poems, the dialogue between them will be shown in this article. It is evident that the notions of ruin and poetic justice are contrasted by the way in which writers somehow redeem narratives that are components of the history of the defeated, placing them as a component of the identity of the Latin American peoples, resulting in a voicing strategy (be it from the collective, be it individual characters – mostly female, in Doubiago) that start from a look at the past with a view to understanding the present.