Abstract

BUSTAMANTE BERMUDEZ, Gerardo. Personal and collective memory in Balam Rodrigo’s poetry: Marabunta and Libro centroamericano de los muertos. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2022, n.25, pp.149-179.  Epub June 02, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i25.413.

This article analyzes the representation of personal and collective memory through two testimonial poems that affect the critical reflection on the Central American reality: Marabunta (2017) and Libro centroamericano de los muertos(2018) of the Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo, as possibilities for the recovery of a memory communicated as correlates on Central American migration in present time history. Poetry, testimonial experience and poetic construction go through the memorable discourses of a poetic mourning on the part of the author and as a contribution to the Mexican poetry of social theme in Mexico.

Keywords : contemporary Mexican poetry; collective memory; testimony; mourning.

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