Historiografía literaria y literatura indígena costarricense: exclusión y violencia epistémica desde la retórica de la modernidad

e purpose of this research is to analyze the indigenous as a literary category and its relationship with the national historiographic discourse. Its objective is to prove the exclusion processes that the different indigenous aesthetic-literary manifestations have experienced in Costa Rican historiography, considered as a socio-discursive practice with political, cultural and ideological implications. e sources used include: –an anthology, two literary historical documents, and a literary dictionary, from which it was possible to study the construction processes (theoretical and methodological) of these texts through Mignolo's decolonial theory and rhetoric of modernity. e main findings show that there is a correlation between the colonial matrix of power and the processes of exclusion found in the texts studied, which correspond to European epistemological parameters.