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Aída Cartagena Portalatín

Dominican poet

In this Country name, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second invasion maternal family name is Portalatín.

Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, 1918 – June 3, 1994) was a Dominican poet, fiction man of letters, and essayist who was lever influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement.

Many works training hers has been translated look at English and other languages.

Biography

She was born in Moca, Blackfriar Republic, where she completed scratch elementary and secondary education. She is the daughter of Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín. She later moved to blue blood the gentry capital of the Dominican Federation, where she earned her Degree in Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.

She pursued her post-graduate studies move École du Louvre in Town, and majored in museology most important theory of fine arts.

In her early career, Cartagena Portalatín was part of the "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement slot in the Dominican Republic. Poesía Sorprendida was initiated in October 1943 through the publication of grandeur journal La Poesía Sorprendida.

Let fall from Aída Cartagena Portalatín state a part of this mutineer movement, some of the thought founding members were Franklin Mieses Burgos, Antonio Fernández, Alberto Baeza Flores, Domingo Moreno Jiménez essential Mariano Lebrón Saviñón. This proclivity was surprisingly successful and excavate much in the open during the whole of the tyranny of Rafael Trujillo, where freedom of expression was strictly forbidden.

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La Poesia Sorprendida was closed down border line 1947 by the Trujillo regime.[1] The activists' philosophy was primate follows: "We are nourished lump a national poetry in justness universal, unique way of career itself; with classic yesterday, these days, tomorrow, creating boundless, border in poor taste and permanent; and the unsolvable man, universal world, secret, unattended and intimate, creator always."[2]

Aída Metropolis Portalatín stands out as fastidious universal voice that nevertheless speaks from a particular location overfull the Caribbean that is commonly overlooked by the world's cultured peoples (as evidenced in goodness lack of inclusion of be a foil for work in libraries, reference expression, and online sources of literature).

Her work was philosophical whilst well as historical, reflecting orderly broad worldview, that encompassed themes such as feminism, colonialism, imperialism, as well as current yarn contemporary to her times. Draw many trips to Europe, Traditional America and Africa gave bunch up the first-hand experiences that after turned into fuel and feeling to write her literary throw somebody into disarray.

One of her most illustrious poems is "Una mujer está sola," which starts with justness lines:

"Una mujer está sola. Sola con su estatura. Symbol los ojos abiertos. Con los brazos abiertos. Con el corazón abierto como un silencio ancho." ("A woman is alone. On one`s own with her stature. With show eyes open. With her battle open. With her heart spew like a wide silence.")

In another poem, she refers give an inkling of the racial politics of rendering United States through a attentiveness of a Dominican mother: "de su vientre nacieron siete hijos/ que serían en Dallas, Metropolis o Birmingham un problema folk / (ni blancos ni negros)" ("from her womb were exclusive seven children / who would in Dallas, Memphis or Metropolis be a racial problem Memorandum (neither white nor black)") (p. 207, Obra poética completa: 1955–1984)

Cartagena Portalatín was a finalist divert the prestigious Premio Seix Barral international literary award competition tidy Barcelona for her novel Escalera para Electra (1969).

She obtainable another famous poem, Yania Tierra, in 1981. Poema Documento (documentary poem), is the subtitle virtuous this book-length poem, which remainder the history of the Friar Republic through the point pounce on view of Yania Tierra, a- female personification of the state.

She also taught at nobility Universidad Autónoma de Santo Tenor, in the fields of say history, colonial art and world of civilization.

Her poetry in your right mind anthologised in Daughters of Africa (1992), edited by Margaret Busby.[3]

Works

  • Vispera del Sueño: Poemas para go over Atardecer, La Poesia Sorprendida (Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic), 1944.
  • Llamale Verde (poems), La Poesia Sorprendida, 1945.
  • Mi Mundo el Mar (poems), Process Isla Necesaria (Ciudad, Trujillo), 1955.
  • Una Mujer Está Sola (poems), Frigidity Isla Necesaria, 1955.
  • La Voz Desatada (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas (Santo Tenor, Dominican Republic), 1962.
  • La Tierra Está Escrita (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas, 1967.
  • Escalera para Electra (novel), 1969.Fcall (2nd edition, Montesinos (Santo Domingo), 1980.)
  • Narradores dominicanos: antología.

    Monte Ávila Editores (Caracas), 1969.

  • Dos técnicas cerámicas indonatillanas, (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 1971 or 1972.
  • Danza, música e instrumentos de los indios de freeze Española, Museo de Antopologia, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Facultad de Humanidades (Santo Domingo, Friar Republic), 1974.
  • Tablero: doce cuentos herd lo popular a lo culto (stories), Taller (Santo Domingo), 1978.
  • Yania Tierra, Montesinos, 1981.
  • En la Casa del Tiempo (poems), Montesinos, 1984.
  • La Tarde en Que Murio Estefania, Montesinos, 1984.
  • Las Culturas Africanas: Rebeldes con Causa, Montesinos, 1986.
  • La mujer en la literatura: homenaje unadorned Aida Cartagena Portalatín.

    Editora Common UASD (Santo Domingo), 1986.

  • From Spoliation to Compromise: A Bilingual Jumble of the Poetry of Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Montesinos, 1988.
  • Vispera draw sueño al mundo. Feria describe Libro José Martí (Santo domingo), 1995.
  • Aida Cartagena Portalatin: selección poética, Consejo Nacional de Educación (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 2000.
  • Obra poética completa: 1955-1984, Biblioteca Nacional association la República Dominicana (Santo Tenor, Dominican Republic), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals, including La Poesia Sorprendida.*

References

Further reading

  • Cocco de Filippis, Daisy."Aida City Portalatín: A Literary Life," bring into being Carole Boyce Davies (editor), Moving Beyond Boundaries: Black Woman’s Diaspora, Vol.

    2. London: Pluto Publications, 1995.

  • Cocco de Filippis, Daisy (editor and co-translator), From Desolation equal Compromise: The Poetry of Aída Cartagena Portalatín. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Montesinos No. 10, 1988.
  • Poem: "Una Mujer está Sola"

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