Abstract

During the first half of the twentieth century in Chile, experience as a principle of literary inspiration was widely linked to the gestation of amateur writing. In this context, the figures of the self-taught writer and the amateur writer emerged, who were characterized by exploring other forms of expression away from the positivist perspective to represent reality. The following article aims to examine the work of one of these non-professional writers, Mait & eacute; Allamand, to show, from her narrative perspective, the development of avitalist writing, which draws on the outside, exteriority, or experience to shape her literary work. In this aspect, it is interesting to focus the analysis on one of the themes that appear in different moments of her literary trajectory: the precarious or vulnerable maternities, which arise in the context of poverty, violence, and abandonment. In this sense, the reading proposal seeks to relate these maternities' inclusion in her work with her conception of experimental (or amateur) writing marked in the affections and experience, looking for a resignification of autodidacticism, which allows reading this type of writing from its aesthetic-political power.