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by Martina Bortignon (Author)
En este libro, la autora explora cómo una serie de obras poéticas chilenas configuran una representación de la marginalidad donde se visibilizan proyecciones simbólicas y libidinales de la comunidad social. La marginalidad, entendida como categoría discursiva en diálogo con manifestaciones culturales y sociales de diversa naturaleza, se transforma así en un espejo en el cual tanto los lectores como los críticos son llamados a mirarse. Transitando de Diamela Eltit a Juan Carreño, Martina Bortignon delinea tres momentos de la relación entre poesía y margen. En la dictadura, prevalece la coincidencia entre el sujeto de la enunciación y unos personajes marginales que testifican desde la huella de sus corporalidades. Con la recuperación de la democracia, se observa la desarticulación de la mirada pública sobre el marginal por medio de un retrato poético agresivo o sensualmente deslumbrado de éste. En la década del 2000, el imaginario asociado al margen es manipulado para sabotear la atribución de identidades fijas. Margen, espejo es un libro provocador e inteligente que, a través del prisma de la creación poética, interroga con lucidez al Chile reciente.
In this book, the author explores how a series of Chilean poems configure a representation of the margins that display symbolic and libidinous projections of the community. The margin, understood as a discursive category in dialogue with cultural and social expressions of a diverse nature, thus becomes a mirror in which both readers and critics are called to look at themselves. Going from Diamela Eltit to Juan Carreño, Martina Bortignon outlines three moments in the relationship between poetry and the margins. In the dictatorship, the convergence between normative and marginal characters prevails, and these testify from the imprint of their bodies. With the recovery of democracy, the deconstruction of the public gaze on the marginal is observed through an aggressive or sensually dazzled poetic portrait. In the 2000s, the imaginary associated with the margin is manipulated in order to sabotage the attribution of fixed identities. Margen, espejo is a provocative and intelligent book that lucidly interrogates contemporary Chile through the prism of poetic creation.
Author Biography
Martina Bortignon is a professor of Hispano-American and Comparative Literature at the Adolfo Ibáñez University (Santiago). Her line of research focuses on poetry and poetic prose of the 20th and 21st centuries from the perspective of the theory of sensations, intermediality, the aesthetic response in reading and social marginalization.
