Blanca Wiethüchter: des-nombrando el paisaje. Políticas y poéticas de la representación en la década de los 80 en Bolivia

<div><p class="AbstractKeywordsGold">This article examines the relationship between poetic writing and the discourse of landscape in Madera Viva y &aacute;rbol difunto (1982) by Blanca Wieth&uuml;chter (1947-2004). Landscape is often understood as a modern device of nor...

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Main Author: Mauricio Duarte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2011-01-01
Series:Bolivian Studies Journal
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Online Access:http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/bsj/article/view/13
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Summary:<div><p class="AbstractKeywordsGold">This article examines the relationship between poetic writing and the discourse of landscape in Madera Viva y &aacute;rbol difunto (1982) by Blanca Wieth&uuml;chter (1947-2004). Landscape is often understood as a modern device of normative representation in which people and places are classified merely as private property. I argue that Wieth&uuml;chter&rsquo;s poetry establishes a counter-narrative of the landscape through the use of a poetic gaze that reinstates social and marginal imaginaries by recognizing the materiality of such landscape and, most importantly, the political role of imagination in shaping the sense of the real. In doing so, I show how Wieth&uuml;chter uses poetic language to claim multiple and conflictive realities that lie beneath the names and harmonic appearances of things. Finally, by analyzing Wieth&uuml;chter&rsquo; poetic and critical work in dialogue with thinkers and scholars such as Garc&iacute;a Linera, Mamani, Zavaleta Mercado, and Rivera Cusicanqui, this article contributes to the understanding of the politics of representation during the 1980s in Bolivia.</p></div> <div><p class="AbstractTitleBlue">Resumen</p> <p class="AbstractKeywordsBlue">Este art&iacute;culo examina la relaci&oacute;n entre la escritura po&eacute;tica y el discurso del paisaje en Madera Viva y &aacute;rbol difunto (1982) de Blanca Wieth&uuml;chter (1947-2004). A menudo el paisaje es entendido como un mecanismo moderno de representaci&oacute;n normativa en la cual los sujetos y los lugares son clasificados simplemente como propiedad privada. Nuestro argumento propone que la poes&iacute;a de Wieth&uuml;chter establece una contra-narrativa del paisaje a trav&eacute;s del uso de una mirada po&eacute;tica que reinstala imaginarios sociales y marginales al reconocer la materialidad del paisaje y, m&aacute;s a&uacute;n, el rol pol&iacute;tico de la imaginaci&oacute;n en la configuraci&oacute;n del sentido de realidad. Al proponer lo anterior, se muestra c&oacute;mo Wieth&uuml;chter usa el lenguage po&eacute;tico para reclamar realidades m&uacute;ltiples y conflictivas anquilosadas bajo la arm&oacute;nica apariencia de las cosas. Finalmente, al analizar la obra po&eacute;tica y cr&iacute;tica de Wieth&uuml;chter en di&aacute;logo con pensadores como Garc&iacute;a Linera, Mamani, Zavaleta Mercado y Rivera Cusicanqui, este trabajo contribuye a las investigaciones realizadas en torno a la pol&iacute;tica de la representaci&oacute;n en la Bolivia de 1980.&nbsp;</p></div>
ISSN:1074-2247
2156-5163