Abstract
In this dissertation, I study the ways by which the intersections of poetic writing and visuality have been used as a mechanism of political intervention and occupation of the public space by Chilean authors from the second half of the twentieth century. As I argue, in a period of violent changes, the group of authors in question -- Nicanor Parra, Raúl Zurita, Catalina Parra, Alfredo Jaar, among others -- had to redefine their means of critical intervention by using a hybrid language tailored to the political and spatial configurations in which they worked. In my project, I understand the incorporation of visuality into poetic writing as an attempt to rethink not just the way of enunciating the political, but also of assuming an active position in the political arena. My dissertation provides a necessary inquiry for the understanding of the articulations of intermedia poetics, public space, and political contingency, and the transformations that these concepts suffered over this historical period. It explores how visuality transformed the tense relation between poetics and politics, thus opening up a new critical genealogy of Chilean contemporary poetry, within a larger Latin American framework.
Committee Chair
Ignacio Infante
Committee Members
Javier Garcia Liendo, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Elzbieta Sklodowska,
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Author's Department
Romance Languages and Literature: Hispanic Studies
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
Spring 5-15-2017
Language
Spanish (es)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/K7HD7T2H
Author's ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2382-1824
Recommended Citation
Montero, Gonzalo, "‘La Poesía de la Plaza Pública’: Escritura Poética, Visualidad y el Espacio de lo Político. Chile,1972-1988" (2017). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 1131.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/K7HD7T2H
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