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La obra del escritor puertorriqueño Luis Rafael Sánchez ha sido estudiada desde diferentes ángulos críticos y perspectivas metodológicas. Ensayistas y académicos se han abocado al estudio de su obra, con el objeto de indagar sobre la visión que él tiene no sólo del arte narrativo, sino también acerca de su concepción política y social, su visión de la vida y del mundo que le rodea.

Una parte de esta crítica ha tratado de indagar sobre la situación histórica de Puerto Rico; país que ha soportado 400 años de colonialismo español, y que desde 1898, con la presencia norteamericana en la isla, se ha visto forzada a asumir patrones de conducta y formas de vida que muy poco benefician el desarrollo de una auténtica nacionalidad; creando en los hombres y mujeres del país conflictos de identidad que no tienen parangón en el resto del Caribe, ni en Latinoamérica.

De ahí, de esas condiciones políticas y sociales, de esa incertidumbre que empaña y pone en cuestionamiento la idiosincrasia del nativo, surge la gran preocupación política y estética de Luis Rafael Sánchez. Y ese va a ser precisamente el aspecto que se convierte en un punto de honor, ideológico, en toda su obra. Se propone el escritor reivindicar a su país, y sensibilizar a sus conciudadanos sobre esa grave situación. Para ello, con el fin de rescatar la identidad, recurre a los bajos fondos, a la cultura de los marginales y las clases desposeídas y plebeyas, en lo que luego llamará Hacia una poética de lo soez.

En esta investigación nosotros partimos de esa tesis poética para demostrar cuáles son sus aspectos determinantes, y cómo se aplica en el corpus creativo del escritor. La muestra abarca los cuatro géneros: ensayo, drama, cuento y novela.

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The work of the Puerto Rican writer Luis Rafael Sánchez has been studied from different critical angles and methodological perspectives. Essayists and academics have dedicated themselves to the study of his work, with the aim of inquiring about the vision that he has not only of narrative art, but also about his political and social conception, his vision of life and the world that surrounds him.

A part of this criticism has tried to inquire about the historical situation of Puerto Rico; a country that has endured 400 years of Spanish colonialism, and that since 1898, with the North American presence on the island, has been forced to assume patterns of conduct and ways of life that do little to benefit the development of an authentic nationality; creating identity conflicts in the men and women of the country that are unparalleled in the rest of the Caribbean, nor in Latin America.

From there, from those political and social conditions, from that uncertainty that clouds and questions the idiosyncrasies of the native, arises the great political and aesthetic concern of Luis Rafael Sánchez. And that is going to be precisely the aspect that becomes an ideological point of honor in all of his work. The writer intends to vindicate his country, and sensitize his fellow citizens about this serious situation. To do this, in order to rescue identity, he turns to the underworld, to the culture of the marginalized and the dispossessed and plebeian classes, in what he will later call Towards a poetics of the vulgar.

In this investigation we start from this poetic thesis to demonstrate what its determining aspects are, and how it is applied in the creative corpus of the writer. The sample covers the four genres: essay, drama, short story and novel.

Details

Title
Poética de lo soez: Luis Rafael Sánchez. Identidad y cultura en América Latina y en el Caribe
Author
Sanchez Rondon, Julio Cesar
Publication year
2006
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
ISBN
978-0-542-63954-8
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
305276875
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.