Cartografías cosmopolitas
Marco Ramírez Rojas
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and peripheries, revendicating marginality as a productive condition. The study of this alternative cosmopolitanism brings de Greiff’s writings into current debates about Latin America’s cultural positionality within the frame of global cultural networks and world literature.
Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analiza la obra de este poeta colombiano del siglo XX como una manifestación de cosmopolitismo, cartografías culturales globales y la construcción de una genealogía poética. Ramírez Rojas se acerca a los poemas de León de Greiff como mapas culturales que revelan tanto un deseo de conexión con el mundo como una necesidad de reorganizar el archivo imaginario de la literatura mundial. Desde una asumida posición de excentricidad, de Greiff construye una red de conexiones globales y pone en cuestión las divisiones binarias de centro y periferia, reivindicando así su marginalidad como una condición productiva. El estudio de este cosmopolitismo alternativo contextualiza los textos de León de Greiff en los debates actuales sobre el posicionamiento de América Latina dentro de las redes de cultura global y de la literatura mundial.
Rezensionen
" <i>Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria</i> is an ambitious, well-researched, and well-written study that represents a significant (and overdue) contribution to the relatively scant body of criticism on León de Greiff's poetry. De Greiff's construction of a uniquely personal and enigmatic poetic universe is illuminated through skillful close readings and explorations of connections to far-flung communities and literary traditions. Among this monograph's unique contributions are its convincing situation of de Greiff's work both within <i>modernism</i> and in dialogue with contemporary authors and critics in and beyond the Latin American context; its exploration of the poet's 'cartographies' through effective close analyses of themes and images; and its more detailed investigations of his relationships with Scandinavia, the 'Orient,' and an unlikely kindred spirit, François Villon. It is my hope that this groundbreaking text leads more scholars of literature to discover the work of one of Latin America's greatest poets."
Kundenbewertungen
Columbian literature, literary mappings, Columbia, modernista literature, modernista studies, Latin America