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BARRETO, David. America and the Origins of Poetry. Notes towards a Theory of Latin American Lyric. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.2, pp.319-358. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v22n2.86094.

This essay explores the notions of lyric, modernity, and America. I argue that the idea of America is inextricable to the emergence of modern lyric poetry. I question the understanding that the value of Latin American poetry is confined to the historiographic Hegelian spirit of "universal" history that marks the beginning of poetry in Latin America in the late 19th century, only after it first emerged in Europe and then in the United States. I analyze the image of America and the development of lyric poetry since the end of the so-called Middle Ages in relation to the heterogeneous constitution of modernity and modern subjectivity. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism would be completely meaningless without the parallel conceptualization and conquest of America. Finally, this essay proposes that the alleged poetic delay in Latin America must be abandoned in favor of a poetic approach that is written and verified without the teleological constraints of History.

Palavras-chave : America; philosophy of history; history; lyric; modernity; Latin American lyric poetry.

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