Entre revoluciones, crisis y utopías: poéticas en relación (América Latina y el Caribe, siglos XX y XXI). Presentación

Abstract

This introduction presents the guiding principle organizing the Dossier, which is devoted to the literature produced in the various Antillean areas (Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic Caribbean). In line with Glissant’s proposal of conceiving the Caribbean in relation and geopolitically situated, the articles approach the symbolic, intellectual, literary, artistic links established between the diverse islands and our particular locus of discussion: Latin America. The Dossier covers a long time span, from the emancipatory context of Derek Walcott’s work in the English Caribbean, which engages with Diego Rivera’s muralism, through the relationships developed between French Caribbean poetics (Césaire, Tropiques review) and Latin American aesthetics (Wifredo Lam, neobaroque), to the poetry that from the 60s and 70s onwards affiliates with the Revolution –not without ambiguities– (Alberto Szpunberg) and signals the crisis resulting from the end of utopias, proposing however, forms of resistance (Mara Pastor).