Ángel Escobar, a Poetics of Fugue
Keywords:
Ángel Escobar, Cuban poetry, Twentieth Century, space, fugue.
Abstract
The iconoclast and desperate works of Ángel Escobar (Sitiocampo, 1957- La Habana, 1997) stand out in the map of recent Cuban poetry. This paper analyzes the physic and symbolic routes of the poetic subject in Escobar’s texts, usually identified with the figure of the urban walker. With the aim of describing a poetics of fugue in the Cuban author’s texts, we shall examine, among other aspects: the spatial syntax introduced by the subject’s routes and the discursive strategies that transgress it, the rhetoric figures that account for dynamism, the metaphors assumed by the routes, the nomad statute of the subject and the poetic inscription of the body in Escobar’s visceral language.Downloads
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Published
2013-12-09
How to Cite
Puppo L. (2013). Ángel Escobar, a Poetics of Fugue. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 42, 241-255. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2013.v42.43666
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Miscelaneous
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