Abstract

BARRON ROSAS, León Felipe. The heterodox tradition of the baroque in Alfonso Reyes and Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2022, n.25, pp.89-121.  Epub June 02, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i25.392.

The most extended version of the re-emergence of the Baroque at the beginnings of XX century locates the Generation of ‘27 as the origin of this phenomenon. This article pretends to articulate another version, rarely discussed, in which the works of Alfonso Reyes and Pedro Henríquez Ureña are central. Their readings about Gongora’s Baroque, as well as the works of Bernardo de Balbuena, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz derived from a heterodox reinterpretation of the baroque tradition, away from a traditionalist Hispanism. The work of both authors can be understood as a contraposition and appropriation movement that ensured, in the longer term, a revival of the Baroque in Latin America. The presence of the Baroque in the works of both the Mexican and the Dominican authors was key within their intellectual project defined by a Hispanism that leaned towards Americanism.

Keywords : Baroque renovation; hispanism; americanism; Latin America.

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