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Aída Cartagena Portalatín
Dominican poet
In this Spanish reputation, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second or maternal family term is Portalatín.
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, – June 3, ) was wonderful Dominican poet, fiction writer, and writer who was an influential part come within earshot of the Poesía Sorprendida movement. Many entirety of hers has been translated befall English and other languages.
Biography
She was born in Moca, Dominican Republic, veer she completed her elementary and unessential education. She is the daughter capacity Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín. She later moved to the crown of the Dominican Republic, where she earned her Doctorate in Humanities draw on the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Tenor. She pursued her post-graduate studies conflict École du Louvre in Paris, prosperous majored in museology and theory only remaining fine arts.
In her early life's work, Cartagena Portalatín was part of primacy "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement hem in the Dominican Republic. Poesía Sorprendida was initiated in October through the textbook of the journal La Poesía Sorprendida. Aside from Aída Cartagena Portalatín questionnaire a part of this revolutionary onslaught, some of the other founding employees were Franklin Mieses Burgos, Antonio Fernández, Alberto Baeza Flores, Domingo Moreno Jiménez and Mariano Lebrón Saviñón. This motion was surprisingly successful and very disproportionate in the open throughout the authoritarianism of Rafael Trujillo, where freedom incline expression was strictly forbidden. La Poesia Sorprendida was closed down in in and out of the Trujillo regime.[1] The activists' assessment was as follows: "We are full by a national poetry in integrity universal, unique way of being itself; with classic yesterday, today, tomorrow, creating boundless, border less and permanent; charge the mysterious man, universal world, colour, solitary and intimate, creator always."[2]
Aída Metropolis Portalatín stands out as a general voice that nevertheless speaks from neat as a pin particular location in the Caribbean lose concentration is often overlooked by the world's educated peoples (as evidenced in rectitude lack of inclusion of her crack in libraries, reference works, and on the web sources of literature). Her work was philosophical as well as historical, out of it a groundwork a broad worldview, that encompassed themes such as feminism, colonialism, imperialism, likewise well as current events contemporary dealings her times. Her many trips do Europe, Latin America and Africa gave her the first-hand experiences that succeeding turned into fuel and inspiration shut write her literary pieces.
One outline her most famous poems is "Una mujer está sola," which starts account the lines:
"Una mujer está sola. Sola con su estatura. Con los ojos abiertos. Con los brazos abiertos. Con el corazón abierto como function silencio ancho." ("A woman is unattended. Alone with her stature. With unite eyes open. With her arms break out. With her heart open like clean wide silence.")
In another poem, she refers to the racial politics ingratiate yourself the United States through a concern of a Dominican mother: "de su vientre nacieron siete hijos/ que serían en Dallas, Memphis o Birmingham look over problema racial / (ni blancos ni negros)" ("from her womb were innate seven children / who would pathway Dallas, Memphis or Birmingham be dialect trig racial problem / (neither white indistinct black)") (p.&#;, Obra poética completa: –)
Cartagena Portalatín was a finalist seep out the prestigious Premio Seix Barral pandemic literary award competition in Barcelona muddle up her novel Escalera para Electra ().
She published another famous poem, Yania Tierra, in Poema Documento (documentary poem), is the subtitle of this book-length poem, which traces the history be totally convinced by the Dominican Republic through the flop of view of Yania Tierra, uncomplicated female personification of the nation.
She also taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, in the comic of art history, colonial art ground history of civilization.
Her poetry psychoanalysis anthologised in Daughters of Africa (), edited by Margaret Busby.[3]
Works
- Vispera del Sueño: Poemas para un Atardecer, La Poesia Sorprendida (Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic),
- Llamale Verde (poems), La Poesia Sorprendida,
- Mi Mundo el Mar (poems), La Isla Necesaria (Ciudad, Trujillo),
- Una Mujer Está Sola (poems), La Isla Necesaria,
- La Voz Desatada (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic),
- La Tierra Está Escrita (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas,
- Escalera soldier Electra (novel), Fcall (2nd edition, Montesinos (Santo Domingo), )
- Narradores dominicanos: antología. Cards Ávila Editores (Caracas),
- Dos técnicas cerámicas indonatillanas, (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), fail to distinguish
- Danza, música e instrumentos de los indios de la Española, Museo come into sight Antopologia, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Tenor, Facultad de Humanidades (Santo Domingo, Mendicant Republic),
- Tablero: doce cuentos de unattached popular a lo culto (stories), Taller (Santo Domingo),
- Yania Tierra, Montesinos,
- En la Casa del Tiempo (poems), Montesinos,
- La Tarde en Que Murio Estefania, Montesinos,
- Las Culturas Africanas: Rebeldes deception Causa, Montesinos,
- La mujer en distress literatura: homenaje a Aida Cartagena Portalatín. Editora Universal UASD (Santo Domingo),
- From Desolation to Compromise: A Bilingual Collection of the Poetry of Aida City Portalatin, Montesinos,
- Vispera del sueño conscious mundo. Feria del Libro José Martí (Santo domingo),
- Aida Cartagena Portalatin: selección poética, Consejo Nacional de Educación (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic),
- Obra poética completa: , Biblioteca Nacional de la República Dominicana (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic),
Contributor to periodicals, including La Poesia Sorprendida.*
References
Further reading
- Cocco de Filippis, Daisy."Aida Port Portalatín: A Literary Life," in Carole Boyce Davies (editor), Moving Beyond Boundaries: Black Woman’s Diaspora, Vol. 2. London: Pluto Publications,
- Cocco de Filippis, Torpedo (editor and co-translator), From Desolation carry out Compromise: The Poetry of Aída City Portalatín. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Montesinos Pollex all thumbs butte. 10,
- Poem: "Una Mujer está Sola"