Resumen

CARRENO BOLIVAR, Rubí. "IT’S DANGEROUS TO BE POOR, FRIEND": CLASS, MASCULINITY AND LITERATURE IN THE ARTISTICS REPRESENTATIONS OF SANTA MARÍA DE IQUIQUE. Atenea (Concepc.) [online]. 2009, n.499, pp. 109-120. ISSN 0718-0462.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-04622009000100006.

This work explores male representations in "La Cantata Santa María de Iquique" (Advis, 1969) and in "Santa María de las flores negras" (Rivera Letelier, 2002), as well as the relations between the popular world and the literary world in order to determine the efficacy or pertinence of literature when it comes to representing the popular male subject.

Palabras clave : Masculinity and social classes; representation; popular music; recent Chilean narrative.