Abstract
Although it may seem strange that an unknown and young poet like Eduardo de Gortari builds his poetics from reminiscences, the fact is that in the time we are living it does not seem so. His poetry is about the intention to rebuild past memories from cultural objects, but this is not unusual because nowadays our environment is so dynamic that the world, just a decade ago, hardly resembles the one we are living in right now. In the present study we argue that a compelling reason of why nostalgia occurs in the poems written by such a young poet is because of the speed with which certain artifacts, like a Walkman or a cassette, and cultural objects, like old television series, become obsolete. We will argue that the ontological security derived from transitional objects explained by Anthony Giddens and Donald Winnicott is one of the reasons for this nostalgia. Thus, we will observe two poems in which this kind of objects are linked to the past and to that place in which the poet was sheltered by them.
Highlights
Eduardo de Gortari is a young Mexican poet and narrator born in 1989, whose poetic work has been categorized as a precocious longing for preadolescence
In the present study we argue that a compelling reason of why nostalgia occurs in the poems written by such a young poet is because of the speed with which certain artifacts, like a Walkman or a cassette, and cultural objects, like old television series, become obsolete
Though what Fabre sees in Gortari may seem like nonsense, nostalgia is a recurring topic in artists and writers from the 21st century, as Andreas Huyssen has posited in his group of essays published in Spain under the title Modernismo después de la Posmodernidad
Summary
Eduardo de Gortari is a young Mexican poet and narrator born in 1989, whose poetic work has been categorized as a precocious longing for preadolescence. ABSTRACT: it may seem strange that an unknown and young poet like Eduardo de Gortari builds his poetics from reminiscences, the fact is that in the time we are living it does not seem so.
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