La ciudad como espacio (d)enunciador: poesía colombiana del siglo XXI

Abstract

Colombian poetry of the 20th century is reflection of a critical society that takes the word as a spearhead and the city as a trench. We propose to study linguistic-cultural identity components of the Latin American city as sedimentation existing in the production of two Colombian poets: Carlos Alberto Troncoso and Juan Manuel Roca. Both of them, used to lived in a Bogotá that is transformed on the darkness, and that transforms idyllic places into another city, usually prohibited, hidden. We start from the discussion about the beginnings of Latin American cities that were transformed until their fragmentation in the XXI century (RAMA, 1998; BRANDÃ0, 2007). Later, we analyze four Colombian poems that appear during the last quarter of the 20th Century and collect some fragments of the city on that period of time; such poems are opposed to speeches that present the city as finished, perfect or harmonious, mainly to the foreigner, remembering that “anyone is a foreigner and about to enter maps of oblivion” (ROCA, 1980) in any street of the city. Finally, we discuss possible scopes of the work involving literature about the city as part of a linguistic-enunciative curriculum.