"Latin American Digital Poetics" Dossier Call for Papers

2021

This article presents the experience of the workshop Investigar con dispositivos artísticos y poéticos (Researching with poetic and artistic dispositifs), carried out in the special interest group A Day in Spanish and Portuguese (ADISP), in the frame of the Fifteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), in 2019. The goal of this workshop was to show the panorama of the uses and implications of the arts, poetry, and narratives as a methodological strategy in qualitative research. The theoretical framework to development the workshop included the poetic inquiry approach and the artistic dispositif. The experience of the workshop shows the social, political, and critical impact of combining art and poetry. This combination allows researchers to go beyond more traditional research practices such as interviews and ethnographies. We hope to contribute to promote these alternative methodologies in the Latin American researchers’ communities and audiences.

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Poetriae and Arte de poesía castellana: basis for the creation of a digital collection of Castilian poetic treatises

River Plate authors Cristina Peri Rossi and Belén Gache, both currently based in Spain, reconfigure poetry as a vehicle for democratic citizenry and for engaging the creative word in cyberspace(s). Rather than positioning their writing from a stance of victimhood or division, they reclaim the sensorial pleasures and "in-between positions" (Bloodsworth 2007, 2) of gender and sociopolitical relations to reconfigure the repression of marginalized world views into new plural expressions vis-à-vis cyberspace. In "Playstation" (2009), Peri Rossi reveals concern with the explosion of hypermedia in our daily lives and explores how to reimagine and reposition the negative valences of hyper-reality through poetry. Gaché's "Radikal Karaoke" is a "reading of 'Ex Africa semper aliquid novi' recorded in Madrid in June 2013" as a series of poems in video. The interplay between the post-postmodern, transnational word channeled in visual, performative, cybernetic and non-linear expression mediated by digital technologies expand the reach of the poetry beyond a specifically-bound sites; how are these transferred and how can they reach various audiences across Latin America and the globe? As per Judith Butler, it is "to think about the relational self, understood as plurality" (in Butler and Athanasiou 2014, 123). How is this experienced via a networked reality such as the World Wide Web? As we examine these works' counterhegemonic agency from their globalized Latin American perspective, hypertext theory comes into play for fashioning ways to consider the connections between literary practice, theory and computer technology.

“Latin American Digital Literature”. Latin American Literature in Transition 1980 – 2018. Mónica Szurmuk and Debra A. Castillo (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 93-107. , 2022

This chapter critically examines Latin American digital literature. First, it deals with the definition and main traits of electronic literature, arguing that electronic literature represents not just the emergence of a new modality that can be confined to a corner or “niche” of literature, but, on the contrary, an interrogation of the ontology of literature. Second, it discusses the specificity of Latin American digital writing. While some scholars claim that electronic literature is essentially a global phenomenon detached from the location where it is produced, others argue that “locatedness” is fundamental. The adjective “Latin American” should be understood as describing the dialogues that these works establish with central Latin American issues and concerns as well as their engagement with a cultural tradition that is considered as belonging/specific to the region. After presenting a brief genealogy of electronic literature in Latin America, the final part of the chapter analyzes four digital works that can be considered as canonical, or at least representative of a plurality of forms that characterizes electronic literature: Gabriella Infinita by Colombian author Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez; Grita by the Peruvian poet José Aburto; The IP Poetry Project by Argentinean artist Gustavo Romano; and The 27th/El 27 by the Mexican artist Eugenio Tisselli.

The translocal poetics retains cognitive obscurity of the familiar, but also preserves fascinating mystery of unexpected and successful transmissions of the familiar into other places and spaces. Literature then reveals the ability to transfer one locality into the world of another, generating confusion and excitement, misunderstandings and discoveries, by means of which a creative transnational and translocal literary and cultural community is ceaselessly being built. E d w a r d B a l c e r z a n M a c i e j D u d a S ł a w o m i r I w a s i ó w V e r i t a S r i r a t a n a fall 2015 J a h a n R a m a z a n i and translocal fall 2015

 This special edition brings together an international group of academics and writers to explore new tendencies and readings in Argentine poetry, including contributions by some of Argentina's foremost contemporary poets and interna­ tionally recognized experts in the field. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a surprising upsurge in poetic produc­ tion and publishing in Argentina, in spite – or at times because – of the economic and political crisis of the early 2000s. Young writers, independent publishers, and new forms of diffusion have all emerged. Critics have developed innovative approaches, rethinking both the poetic tradition of the last 60 years and the very latest poetry there. This makes Argentine poetry today a fascinating subject for literary and cultural analysis. The collection of essays and reflections builds on papers delivered during the Institute of Modern Languages Research/University of Oxford symposium hosted at Senate House, University of London, in June 2013. Contributions explore the roots of the latest Argentine poetry, its formal and thematic characteristics, and the continued relevance of poetry as a means of cultural criticism and resistance. In 1992, the poet and anthropologist Néstor Perlongher wrote about Argen ­ 1 We are extremely grateful to a number of individuals and organizations for their help in organizing the symposium that gave rise to this special edition. Senate House, London, hosted the event with the support of the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London. The University of Oxford provided funding to support the sympo­ sium, as did the Argentine Embassy in London. We are grateful to Professor Edwin Williamson, Ambassador Alicia Castro, and Silvina Murphy for their support. Dr Joanna Page and Dr Gwen MacKeith chaired panels, and Professor McGuirk and Luciana di Leone gave papers that are published elsewhere. The event included a screening of the photo­ graphic exhibition 'Fases' by Karin Idelson and Natalia Fortuny. Ruta40 Wines very gene­ rously provided refreshments for the evening reception and poetry reading.

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First Call for Papers: “Symbolic Intersections: Birds in British and Latin American Poetry of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, 15-16 June, 2017 (University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile).

This course is designed to provide students with structured and guided writing practice to assist them in progressing their writing abilities in Spanish from the intermediate to the advanced level, according to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. We will practice textual forms of description, narration, exposition and argumentation, and interpersonal communication modes as well —social media, and e-mail. Texts may include literary, political, sociological, and cultural approach. A series of different writing assignments —a description, a narration, an exposition, and an argumentative essay— will be assigned to improve students’ writing skills.