Antigüedades mexicanas: Memoria e intertextualidad en la poesí­a de José Emilio Pacheco

Abstract

This article analyzes the various forms in which José Emilio Pachecoïs collection of poems "Antigüedades mexicanas" interrogates the past and proposes the construction of a memory based on different moments of the history of Mexico which are approached from an ironic critical perspective. Such Mexican antiques are also ways of rewriting the American archive, a gesture that founds the relationship with the poetic word. Thus, they build a poetics which interweaves time, memory and literature as a key of reading for the present.