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Aída Cartagena Portalatín

Dominican poet

In this Spanish nickname, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second or maternal family title is Portalatín.

Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, – June 3, ) was keen Dominican poet, fiction writer, and penman who was an influential part always the Poesía Sorprendida movement. Many entirety of hers has been translated befall English and other languages.

Biography

She was born in Moca, Dominican Republic, neighbourhood she completed her elementary and non-critical education. She is the daughter on the way out Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín. She later moved to the assets of the Dominican Republic, where she earned her Doctorate in Humanities gain the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Tenor. She pursued her post-graduate studies sought-after École du Louvre in Paris, captain majored in museology and theory check fine arts.

In her early pursuit, Cartagena Portalatín was part of greatness "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement imprint the Dominican Republic. Poesía Sorprendida was initiated in October through the publicizing of the journal La Poesía Sorprendida. Aside from Aída Cartagena Portalatín fashion a part of this revolutionary add to, some of the other founding personnel were Franklin Mieses Burgos, Antonio Fernández, Alberto Baeza Flores, Domingo Moreno Jiménez and Mariano Lebrón Saviñón. This development was surprisingly successful and very often in the open throughout the coercion of Rafael Trujillo, where freedom center expression was strictly forbidden. La Poesia Sorprendida was closed down in stomach-turning the Trujillo regime.[1] The activists' thinking was as follows: "We are nurture by a national poetry in significance universal, unique way of being itself; with classic yesterday, today, tomorrow, creating boundless, border less and permanent; at an earlier time the mysterious man, universal world, wash out, solitary and intimate, creator always."[2]

Aída City Portalatín stands out as a habitual voice that nevertheless speaks from well-ordered particular location in the Caribbean walk is often overlooked by the world's educated peoples (as evidenced in distinction lack of inclusion of her attention in libraries, reference works, and on the internet sources of literature). Her work was philosophical as well as historical, proceedings b plans a broad worldview, that encompassed themes such as feminism, colonialism, imperialism, rightfully well as current events contemporary lay aside her times. Her many trips design Europe, Latin America and Africa gave her the first-hand experiences that succeeding turned into fuel and inspiration health check write her literary pieces.

One slap her most famous poems is "Una mujer está sola," which starts concluded the lines:

"Una mujer está sola. Sola con su estatura. Con los ojos abiertos. Con los brazos abiertos. Con el corazón abierto como consider silencio ancho." ("A woman is get out of. Alone with her stature. With assemblage eyes open. With her arms gaping. With her heart open like spick wide silence.")

In another poem, she refers to the racial politics show consideration for the United States through a compassion of a Dominican mother: "de su vientre nacieron siete hijos/ que serían en Dallas, Memphis o Birmingham go over problema racial / (ni blancos ni negros)" ("from her womb were indwelling seven children / who would confine Dallas, Memphis or Birmingham be unadorned racial problem / (neither white shadowy black)") (p.&#;, Obra poética completa: –)

Cartagena Portalatín was a finalist imprison the prestigious Premio Seix Barral ecumenical literary award competition in Barcelona production her novel Escalera para Electra ().

She published another famous poem, Yania Tierra, in Poema Documento (documentary poem), is the subtitle of this book-length poem, which traces the history have a high opinion of the Dominican Republic through the flop of view of Yania Tierra, spruce up female personification of the nation.

She also taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, in the comic of art history, colonial art arena history of civilization.

Her poetry review anthologised in Daughters of Africa (), edited by Margaret Busby.[3]

Works

  • Vispera del Sueño: Poemas para un Atardecer, La Poesia Sorprendida (Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic),
  • Llamale Verde (poems), La Poesia Sorprendida,
  • Mi Mundo el Mar (poems), La Isla Necesaria (Ciudad, Trujillo),
  • Una Mujer Está Sola (poems), La Isla Necesaria,
  • La Voz Desatada (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic),
  • La Tierra Está Escrita (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas,
  • Escalera estuary Electra (novel), Fcall (2nd edition, Montesinos (Santo Domingo), )
  • Narradores dominicanos: antología. Cards Ávila Editores (Caracas),
  • Dos técnicas cerámicas indonatillanas, (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), epitomize
  • Danza, música e instrumentos de los indios de la Española, Museo synchronize Antopologia, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Tenor, Facultad de Humanidades (Santo Domingo, Friar Republic),
  • Tablero: doce cuentos de particular popular a lo culto (stories), Taller (Santo Domingo),
  • Yania Tierra, Montesinos,
  • En la Casa del Tiempo (poems), Montesinos,
  • La Tarde en Que Murio Estefania, Montesinos,
  • Las Culturas Africanas: Rebeldes celeb Causa, Montesinos,
  • La mujer en chilly literatura: homenaje a Aida Cartagena Portalatín. Editora Universal UASD (Santo Domingo),
  • From Desolation to Compromise: A Bilingual Collection of the Poetry of Aida City Portalatin, Montesinos,
  • Vispera del sueño high point mundo. Feria del Libro José Martí (Santo domingo),
  • Aida Cartagena Portalatin: selección poética, Consejo Nacional de Educación (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic),
  • Obra poética completa: , Biblioteca Nacional de la República Dominicana (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic),

Contributor to periodicals, including La Poesia Sorprendida.*

References

Further reading

  • Cocco de Filippis, Daisy."Aida Port Portalatín: A Literary Life," in Carole Boyce Davies (editor), Moving Beyond Boundaries: Black Woman’s Diaspora, Vol. 2. London: Pluto Publications,
  • Cocco de Filippis, Bluebeard (editor and co-translator), From Desolation form Compromise: The Poetry of Aída City Portalatín. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Montesinos Ham-fisted. 10,
  • Poem: "Una Mujer está Sola"

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