Modern Argentine Poetry

Exile, Displacement, Migration

Ben Bollig

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780708323557
• eBook ISBN: 9781783164691
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

This book will be the first to focus specifically on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile. Thus exile is both a vital theme and a practical condition for Argentine letters, yet conversely, contemporary Argentina is a nation of immigrants from Europe and the rest of Latin America. Poetry is often perceived as the least directly political of genres, yet political and other forms of exile have impinged equally on the lives of poets as on any group. This study concentrates on writers who both regarded themselves as in some way exiled and who wrote about exile. This selection includes poets who are influential and recognised, but in general have not enjoyed the detailed study that they deserve: Alejandra Pizarnik, Juan Gelman, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Nestor Perlongher, Sergio Raimondi, Cristian Aliaga, and Washington Cucurto.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Series Editors’ Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Exile and Argentine Poetry
• Exile and Latin American literature
• Defining exile
• Exile as a basis for political intervention
• Methodology
• Notes
• 1: On Exile and Not-Belonging in the Work of Alejandra Pizarnik
• Introduction
• What is an internal exile?: Pizarnik and insilio
• The trauma of lea(v/rn)ing (a) language: some Paris poems
• Exile as death/death as exile: post-Paris poems
• Notes
• 2: Towards a Montonero Poetics? Or, The Melancholy Exile of Juan Gelman?
• Exile in Gelman’s poetry
• Pueblo, Patria, Perón
• Coda
• Notes
• 3: Exile and Cynicism in the Verse of Osvaldo Lamborghini
• ‘Vida de hotel’ and Lamborghini’s early poetry
• Lamborghini, exile and literature
• Exile’s parrhesia?
• Notes
• 4: Nestor Perlongher: Sexual Exile, Migration and Nomadism
• Introduction
• A Brazilian exile
• From exile to nomadism
• AIDS and its aftermath
• Mystical exile?
• Notes
• 5: Cristian Aliaga: Internal Exile and Cultural Activism in Contemporary Patagonia
• Introduction
• Patagonia
• Globalisation
• The Welsh
• Poetry
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 6: Migration and Cultural Activism in the Poetry of Washington Cucurto
• Introduction
• Vega, Cucurto, literature
• Sergio Raimondi
• Displacement and migration
• Notes
• Conclusion
• Bibliography