RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Larreátegui Plaza, Pablo
T1 Alfredo Gangotena: the "non-Ecuadorian" poet in the trance between two languages
JF Romanica Olomucensia
YR 2021
VO 33
IS 2
SP 259
OP 274
DO 10.5507/ro.2021.018
UL https://romanica.upol.cz/artkey/rom-202102-0003.php
AB The introduction presents the poet Alfredo Gangotena (1904-1944) as a case of an author who located himself in the interstices between the French and Spanish languages and who appears outside the Ecuadorian literary canon in the middle of the defining process of national literary modernity in the early twentieth century. Methodologically, the period of the definition of Ecuadorian literary modernity is briefly contextualized, resorting to different publications from between 1910 and 1950. As for Gangotena's work, dispersed in various publications since 1920 in Ecuador and France, it has been compiled, as well as letters and translations dating from after 1950. The textual analysis shows the process of the poet, in which he defines his place and his literary language in the interstices between languages, revealing a conflictive dialogue with the Ecuadorian cultural field in the process of defining national literary modernity between the decades starting in 1910 and 1940. The conclusions summarize what was stated in the previous sections. On the one hand, the importance of literary and critical production that gave rise to Ecuadorian literary modernity is highlighted, as a process that included languages and realities traditionally excluded from the literary and the political. On the other hand, it is evident that this process affected the reception of Gangotena, moving his work to a non-central place. Thus, the need to review the gaps or second lines behind a predominant political canon or discourse arises.