Neruda and Chambi: poetry and photography in Heights of Machu Picchu translated

Keywords: Heights of Machu Picchu, otherness, poetry, photography, postmemory
Agencies: Project with internal financing from the Catholic University of Maule, Chile, UCM-IN-21207 Local narratives and poetics: thematic and stylistic diversifications in the geoliterary field of the Maule region.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the work Alturas de Machu Picchu by Pablo Neruda based on constitutive elements of Nerudian poetry and the value of the image of Martín Chambi's photographs, as a visual element, which gives the work a memory. collective and poetic through the conception of alterity. The methodology used in this work consists of a systematic review of theoretical referents of literature and visuality in order to reveal the philosophy of otherness of the Chilean writer and the Peruvian photographer.Among the main findings is the political ethical commitment in the visual verb proposal of this work, based on the otherness highlighted in the lyrical enunciation and the photographic record of a rocky void that is completed in the architecture of one of the most imposing constructions. of the pre-Columbian past, giving an account of the imaginary of memory and the cosmogony of the Inca culture.

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Published
2024-01-31
How to Cite
Fierro-Concha M. y Albornoz-Albornoz S. (2024). Neruda and Chambi: poetry and photography in Heights of Machu Picchu translated. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 36(2), 395-403. https://doi.org/10.5209/aris.91698
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