LA REPRESENTACIÓN DEL PASADO COMO FORMA NARRATIVA DE LA ESPERANZA EN LOS DESASTRES NATURALES. ANÁLISIS DE LA PRENSA CHILENA PARA LOS TERREMOTOS DE 1960 Y 2010

This research addresses the study of the journalistic contents published in the Chilean press about the earthquakes of 1960 and 2010 in order to explore how each new telluric event is represented from the reminiscence of the previous one. A total of 250 newspaper articles were analyzed using a qualitative methodology that observed the temporal order of the narratives, specifically, the use of analepsis, in order to detect the reference to previous earthquakes. The study revealed that Chilean iournalistic stories of the 1960 and 2010 earthquakes resorted to the representation of the past as a narrative form of hope, to remember that after the scourge of nature there will be a new rebirth. This narrative form responds to the configuration of a Chilean telluric myth.