Poetry and Litoral. Subjects, affectivity and landscapes

Abstract

The poetics of the Litoral in the second half of the 20th century have had and still have a strong impact on the national and Latin American literary field. Through perception, contemplation and life experience in space, different modes of configuration have been generated with respect to nature and landscape, constituting a central topos in the literary system. Furthermore, this landscape -in concrete and material terms- serves as a setting in which the personal and affective relationships between the authors form an amalgam of networks where poetry and friendship merge with gestures of continuity and aesthetic ruptures.

The purpose of this work is to trace a route of key authors of the Litoral region -Juan L. Ortiz, Saer, the objectivist poets of Rosario from the 90s, until reaching the recent productions, Cecilia Moscovich and Daiana Henderson-. The objective is to investigate the ways in which representations of nature and subjective construction are configured in relation to said environment, at the same time as to attend to the ecological, environmental and political consequences that each aesthetic proposal concerns. From the comparative study, the aim is to answer the central question that structures this work: how do we get from a sacred landscape, linked to the idyllic in Juan L. Ortiz, with symbolist characteristics, although stained with injustices, to a landscape where the same nature is corrupted?