Introduction: poetic self-fiction, national traditions and rising pan-Hispanicism

Abstract

The present dossier studies a series of currents of Spanish American poetry from 1960 to the present day and reconstructs some signs of the national traditions in which they emerged and evolved (with special attention to poetic manifestations in Colombia, Nicaragua and Mexico). The expansion of some local proposals to continental lyrical cartography is evident from the second half of the last century (as was the case of conversational poetry and social commitment) to conclude with the identification of an accentuated pan-Hispanic orientation in the XXI century, at which time the genre manifests an increasing liberation of national aesthetic reserves in favor of the traditions shared on both shores of the Atlantic, privileging the common denominator of the language. This dossier was born, then, from the reflections that arose within the framework of the II International Congress on Poetics held in June 2019 at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome, organized by Alí Calderón and Marisa Martínez Pérsico.