The city as a pretext: Álbum de Valparaíso of Elvira Hernández

Abstract

The article attempt to explore the book of poems Álbum de Valparaíso of Elvira Hernández, starting from the confluence of the proposals of the “shipwrecked” subject and the “unbearable witness”. The target of this proposal is a decentralization of the text which would be established as a transfuga poetic production, that exceeds the “generation” classifications of the twentieth century 90s and the 2000. On the other side, the concept of heterotopía raised by Foucault, will help us to admit and problematize the liminal space that it is constructed in the poetry book, from where takes place the enunciation of the poetic subject

Keywords

• heterotopía
• ciudad
• poesía
• náufrago
• testigo imposible