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El infrarrealismo como contrapoetica en la simbolica del poder

Medellin, Milton
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1110-5612
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468337079

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2016, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Romance Languages and Literatures.
My dissertation focuses on a group of underground and outsider poets called Infrarrealismo. This group formed in Mexico between the years 1975-1977 as counter-poetics literary movement with the determination to criticize the established poetry of that time along with the rational aesthetic approach to the poetry experience and the political and cultural aspects of the forming of a literary canon. The antecedents of this group of infrarrealistas poets can be found in the counter-cultural poetic movements from South America in the sixties that all together manifested an expression of what Hugh Fox calls “inter-American awareness”. This inter-American awareness was the result of the political and economic facts of the continent after the Cuban Revolution in the fifties and the Alliance for Progress in the sixties. All this, along with the experience of the dictatorship in different countries of South America, formed the cultural condition so different groups of counter-cultural poetic movements emerged in places like Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, among others. Counter-cultural movements like Nadaismo, El Techo de la Ballena and Tzantzicos promoted rebellious cultural and political manifestation against the regimes imposed on their countries and looking for a different meaning of poetry and culture. The Mexican history of poetry rebellion was important for the infrarrealistas too. The Estridentismo movement, and avant-garde poetry group created in 1921 as an opposition the official poetry of that time, was a very important inspiration for the Infrarrealismo. The Estridentistas where looking for a new poetry form, filled with vitalism, political compromise and avant-garde creative forms based on the Futurism and Ultraism. Along with Estridentismo, the influence of magazines like The Plumed Horn and Pajaro Cascabel, the canonical presence of Nobel Prize Octavio Paz and the counter-cultural inspiration from the poet Efrain Huerta -who was a writer that searched for new vital forms of poetic expression in the interstitial cracks of literary culture-, were very important facts in the creation of a counter poetic anti-canonical movement like Infrarrealismo. In the late seventies, the Nobel Prize Octavio Paz was a very important political and cultural presence in the creation of culture and the publishing domain in Mexico City. In order to consecrate himself as the judge and jury of what poetry should be, so it could be accepted in magazines and public cultural spaces, Paz implemented a symbolic violence excluding all that didn’t were part of his canonical notion of poetry. The Infrarrealismo movement, using underground magazines, counter-poetic boycotts and public readings and performances, tried to criticize Paz canonical configuration of literature, putting themselves in the margin of culture as outsider writers and creating a counter-canon that I call the counter-poetics in the symbolic of power. The creative result of this poetical dialectic between canonical imposed literature and counter-poetics, is what I call “lyrical counter-poetics”: a poetry full of vitalism, bearing witness of the outsiders and the contradictions of the marginal culture, proposing new ways of experiencing and circulating poetry, beyond the canon and the stablished cultural symbolism.
Nicasio Urbina, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Carlos Gutierrez, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Armando Romero, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
240 p.
Latin American Literature
Infrarrealismo; Contrapoetica; Violencia simbolica; Marginal; Octavio Paz; contracultura

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  • Medellin, M. (2016). El infrarrealismo como contrapoetica en la simbolica del poder [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468337079

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Medellin, Milton. El infrarrealismo como contrapoetica en la simbolica del poder. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468337079.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Medellin, Milton. "El infrarrealismo como contrapoetica en la simbolica del poder." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468337079

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