Abstract

Emerging literature has been approached by critics, highlighting some particular features rather than an overall configuration. Therefore, this article explores the internal and systemic dynamics that depict it, defining its study to the poetic production in southern Chile. It is proposed that emerging literature acts as a particular polysystem (Even Zohar, 1990) connected with the major scheme of Chilean literature, homologating its dynamics as to be set up by independent subsystems, although interconnected. We also present a definition for emerging literature, after revising various theoretical analyses about it, in order to identify a type of literary production that in its different center-periphery relations -with its own subsystems and the system of canonized literature- revitalizes the national literature.