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Cuerpo y nación a través del poema "Su cuerpo es una isla en escombros" de Domingo de Ramos

2009; Routledge; Volume: 56; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3200/rqtr.56.4.293-305

1940-3216

Vitelia Cisneros,

Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America

This article is devoted mainly to one poem, "Su cuerpo es una isla en escombros," by Domingo de Ramos (1960), and its relationship to the Peruvian armed conflict that lasted from 1980 to 2000. The article focuses on one incident, the Peruvian prison massacre of June 1986. As part of the analysis, poetry by Alejandro Romualdo (1926-2008) and the Andean myth of the Inkarri are also used. The article shows how Domingo de Ramos's poetry, like similar work by other Peruvian poets, participates in a long tradition that uses the body as a space to represent sociohistorical processes.