I tú: Cecilia Vicuña or the poetics of the broken language
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https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.36.01.04Keywords:
broken language, linguistic hybridity, nomadism, precariousness, performativityAbstract
This essay proposes a linguistic analysis of Cecilia Vicuña’s poetry collection I tú (2004) in order to explore how linguistic fragmentation, nomadism, and hybridity constitute a poetics that resignifies the notion of the “broken language” as a space for creation and resistance. It examines how the inherent limitations of fragmentary language are transfigured into a performative act that challenges and reconfigures traditional notions of linguistic and cultural identity in border contexts. Furthermore, it proposes conceptualizing the “broken language” as both a metaphor and an epistemological tool for rethinking the role of language in exilic and nomadic experiences. The analysis articulates the concepts of precariousness, hybridity, and nomadism present in Vicuña’s work, proposing a theoretical model for understanding the border language as an identity in constant transformation.
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