Alejandra Pizarnik and the Poetics of Radical Incarnation
Generally appreciated as one of the most original and creative voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry, Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina, 1936–1972) has not been regarded as a religious poet. Yet despite her explicit disavowal of all forms of religious commitment, Pizarnik’s work is nonethele...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 514-544 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pizarnik, Alejandra 1936-1972
/ Religious literature
/ Incarnation
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CE Christian art KBR Latin America |
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Alejandra Pizarnik
poetics
incarnation
Latin America
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| Summary: | Generally appreciated as one of the most original and creative voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry, Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina, 1936–1972) has not been regarded as a religious poet. Yet despite her explicit disavowal of all forms of religious commitment, Pizarnik’s work is nonetheless animated by fundamentally theological concerns. This article examines in detail the theological motif of “incarnation” in Pizarnik’s verse. It argues that, despite her avowed secularism, Pizarnik frames her own poetic project in explicitly incarnational language and that this theologically inflected vision underwrites her conception of poetic meaning-making. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | In: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02104003 |