Puerto Rico and the Poetics of Disaster in Mara Pastor’s Deuda natal
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Contemporary Caribbean poetry addresses the exhaustion of the region’s great historical models of society, namely the Commonwealth in Puerto Rico, the Cuban Revolution and the post-civil war democracy in the Dominican Republic. In revealing the fissures of this crisis, the Hispanic Caribbean poetic production of the new millennium ventures into imagining utopian horizons. The work of Mara Pastor, collected in Deuda natal, reveals such coordinates. Her poetry is characterized by the subject’s gaze on the scenarios of ruin, not to take stock of the disaster in Puerto Rico, but to immerse herself in the experience in a gesture that ultimately reveals the promise of a way out that is as personal as it is political.
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