José Carlos Díaz Zanelli Re-Mapping Indigenous Literatures: Nationhood, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, and Subjectivity In her first and so far only novel El tren del olvido (2019), activist, weychafe, 1 and Mapuche-Tehuelche writer Moira Millán from Chubut (Argentina) focuses on the history of the settlement of the Argentine nation-state in Patagonia. This historical development has a colonial character that traverses the territory known as Puel- mapu, as the Mapuche nation calls the lands extending from the Andean moun- tains south to the east. In this text, Millán novelizes the violent schemes that de- fine the process of national modernization in Argentina, from the genocidal Campaña del Desierto at the end of the nineteenth century to the expansion of the railway lines financed with British capital at the beginning of the twentieth cen- tury. In other words, the novel does not lose sight of the fact that the colonial policies of the nation-state (dispossession of land and mass murders) unfold in parallel with the expansion of capitalist modernity (investment and depen- dence). Through contrapuntal temporal connections that link three familiarly related Indigenous and mestizo women who are Llankaray (narrative voice), her great-grandmother Fresia Colman and her grandmother Pirerayen who be- came romantically involved with Irishman Liam O’Sullivan (Llankaray’s grand- father), an immigrant who had escaped the belligerent context during the years of the Irish War of Independence. This connection is used by Millán to represent in her novel a sort of international solidarity between subaltern subjects sub- jected, in different ways, to colonialist structures. In this novel, Llankaray tells the story of her family, rooted in her Mapuche- Tehuelche origins and how her ancestors suffered through the process of forming Argentina’s modern national project. Llankaray’s omniscient narrative weaves the chapters together as she describes intimate family scenes, periodically paral- leled with historical passages such as the military campaigns to displace Indige- nous communities and the construction of railroads. Despite the problematic par- José Carlos Díaz Zanelli, Hamilton College  Weychafe is the Mapuche term for a warrior or defender of ancestral lands. In the social and political historiography of the Mapuche nation, weychafe are historically associated with notions of anti-colonial struggle and ritualistic roles within communities. For more information, I recom- mend consulting Alvarado (1996). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111431703-007