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The present paper analyses one of the less commonly studied aspects of the poetics of César Aira: exoticism, which in Aira stems from the unstable and paradoxical place proper of a post-modern writer from the Rio de la Plata facing traditional (and European) representations of exoticism in a period of cultural globalisation. The paper examines such a paradox and concludes that Aira's exoticism is manifest in the ethnographic simulation and in certain thoughts on the de-familiarisation of the mother tongue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to determine the place of Alvaro Mutis's poetry in the general landscape of Colombian poetic movements. I begin with an overview of the poetic generation in the first half of the 20th century in order to identify the legacies that have had the most significant impact on his poetry. Special emphasis is made on the contrast between Mutis's innovative poetic language and his conservative political views as the main characteristic of his insularity in Colombian literary history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the work and figure of Uruguayan writer Juana de Ibarbourou (1892-1979) during the 1920's decade in which the poet published her first trilogy, which included Las lenguas del diamante (1919), El cántaro fresco (1920) and Raíz salvaje (1922). The interpretation hypothesis proposes that the success among critics which in 1929 consecrated the poet as 'Juana of America' has more to do with the historic context in which the work was read than with the work's intrinsic characteristics. In this sense, the key element was rather the timeliness of her aestheticideological proposal (the simplicity of her language; her anti-intellectualism; the vitality and conservative values regarding her take on gender and her position towards modernisation, represented in the exaltation of nature and the rejection of 'civilised life') within the nationalistic tendencies in vogue at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyses urban imaginaries in the poetry of Elicura Chihuailaf, Leonel Lienlaf and David Añiñir. The invisibility attributed to urban Mapuche people by a nation that conceives itself as homogenously white is somatised through these intercultural texts exhibiting ethnic subjectivities inserted in the tension between belonging and feeling alienated. The inscription of a Mapuche worldview as a reaffirmation of identity is carried out in urban space (an emblem of Chilean nation-culture). Within this conflictive polarisation they become colonial interstice (Chihuailaf ), space that breaks the body-nature-divinity unity (Lienlaf ) and waste of the neoliberal nation (Añiñir). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews different mappings of recent Latin- American poetry based on four anthologies: Antología de la poesía latinoamericana del siglo XXI. El turno y la transición (1997); Zur Dos, última poesía latinoamericana (2004); El decir y el vértigo. Panorama de la poesía hispanoamericana reciente (2005) y 2017. Nueva poesía contemporánea (2009). Examples are approached in a manner relative to their relation to the present, and their tensions with the past and with an imagined future. Their intervention in the field of poetry is studied as an act of breaking, which is where anthologies achieve their utmost critical importance. Break and dispositio, and the syntax with which the texts are organised, will be the instances of transformation of what is read within a continuum of a nature different to the originals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the short story 'El arroyo de la Llorona' by female Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. In it the main character, Cleófilas, is subject to social, emotional and economic dependence on her husband, according to the cultural constructs on female identity that are still relevant in Latin- American patriarchal societies. Due to her circumstances of complete marginalisation and domestic violence, Cleófilas chooses to avoid reality, and this avoidance not only costs her mental well-being, but also annuls her will to make changes to her suffocating life. Oppressed by a patriarchal system, Cleófilas develops an unusual interest in the Llorona legend and, through the remembrance of this myth, these two female figures become symbols of resistance and liberation. In the story, the Llorona ceases to be the denigrated woman tradition has always made her out to be, and becomes the image of a contemporary heroine capable of challenging radical patriarchal norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]