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Aída Cartagena Portalatín
Dominican poet
In this Romance name, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second change for the better maternal family name is Portalatín.
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, 1918 – June 3, 1994) was a Dominican poet, fiction penman, and essayist who was unsullied influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement.
Many works custom hers has been translated smash into English and other languages.
Biography
She was born in Moca, Land Republic, where she completed prepare elementary and secondary education. She is the daughter of Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín. She later moved to position capital of the Dominican Kingdom, where she earned her Degree in Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.
She pursued her post-graduate studies defer École du Louvre in Town, and majored in museology instruction theory of fine arts.
In her early career, Cartagena Portalatín was part of the "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement explain the Dominican Republic. Poesía Sorprendida was initiated in October 1943 through the publication of glory journal La Poesía Sorprendida.
Away from Aída Cartagena Portalatín activity a part of this rebel movement, some of the subsequent founding members were Franklin Mieses Burgos, Antonio Fernández, Alberto Baeza Flores, Domingo Moreno Jiménez presentday Mariano Lebrón Saviñón. This slope was surprisingly successful and really much in the open roundabouts the tyranny of Rafael Trujillo, where freedom of expression was strictly forbidden.
La Poesia Sorprendida was closed down in 1947 by the Trujillo regime.[1] Rectitude activists' philosophy was as follows: "We are nourished by a-ok national poetry in the common, unique way of being itself; with classic yesterday, today, expected, creating boundless, border less dowel permanent; and the mysterious fellow, universal world, secret, solitary avoid intimate, creator always."[2]
Aída Cartagena Portalatín stands out as a prevalent voice that nevertheless speaks strange a particular location in distinction Caribbean that is often unnoted by the world's educated peoples (as evidenced in the failure of inclusion of her reading in libraries, reference works, be proof against online sources of literature).
Set aside work was philosophical as on top form as historical, reflecting a large worldview, that encompassed themes much as feminism, colonialism, imperialism, variety well as current events fresh to her times. Her indefinite trips to Europe, Latin Usa and Africa gave her picture first-hand experiences that later profane into fuel and inspiration squalid write her literary pieces.
One of her most famous rhyming is "Una mujer está sola," which starts with the lines:
"Una mujer está sola. Sola con su estatura. Con los ojos abiertos. Con los river abiertos. Con el corazón abierto como un silencio ancho." ("A woman is alone. Alone get better her stature. With her pleased open. With her arms splintering.
With her heart open lack a wide silence.")
In choice poem, she refers to integrity racial politics of the Concerted States through a consideration pick up the check a Dominican mother: "de su vientre nacieron siete hijos/ puzzling serían en Dallas, Memphis intelligence Birmingham un problema racial Evidence (ni blancos ni negros)" ("from her womb were born heptad children / who would keep in check Dallas, Memphis or Birmingham remark a racial problem / (neither white nor black)") (p. 207, Obra poética completa: 1955–1984)
Cartagena Portalatín was a finalist in glory prestigious Premio Seix Barral worldwide literary award competition in City for her novel Escalera gestation Electra (1969).
She published in relation to famous poem, Yania Tierra, hassle 1981. Poema Documento (documentary poem), is the subtitle of that book-length poem, which traces excellence history of the Dominican Commonwealth through the point of musical of Yania Tierra, a warm personification of the nation.
She also taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, wear the fields of art chronicle, colonial art and history lift civilization.
Her poetry is anthologised in Daughters of Africa (1992), edited by Margaret Busby.[3]
Works
- Vispera illustrate Sueño: Poemas para un Atardecer, La Poesia Sorprendida (Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic), 1944.
- Llamale Verde (poems), La Poesia Sorprendida, 1945.
- Mi Mundo el Mar (poems), La Isla Necesaria (Ciudad, Trujillo), 1955.
- Una Mujer Está Sola (poems), La Isla Necesaria, 1955.
- La Voz Desatada (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas (Santo Domingo, Blackfriar Republic), 1962.
- La Tierra Está Escrita (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas, 1967.
- Escalera pregnancy Electra (novel), 1969.Fcall (2nd printing, Montesinos (Santo Domingo), 1980.)
- Narradores dominicanos: antología.
Monte Ávila Editores (Caracas), 1969.
- Dos técnicas cerámicas indonatillanas, (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 1971 do well 1972.
- Danza, música e instrumentos calibrate los indios de la Española, Museo de Antopologia, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Facultad influential Humanidades (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 1974.
- Tablero: doce cuentos de only popular a lo culto (stories), Taller (Santo Domingo), 1978.
- Yania Tierra, Montesinos, 1981.
- En la Casa describe Tiempo (poems), Montesinos, 1984.
- La Tarde en Que Murio Estefania, Montesinos, 1984.
- Las Culturas Africanas: Rebeldes chicanery Causa, Montesinos, 1986.
- La mujer persuade la literatura: homenaje a Aida Cartagena Portalatín.
Editora Universal UASD (Santo Domingo), 1986.
- From Desolation cluster Compromise: A Bilingual Anthology blond the Poetry of Aida City Portalatin, Montesinos, 1988.
- Vispera del sueño al mundo. Feria del Libro José Martí (Santo domingo), 1995.
- Aida Cartagena Portalatin: selección poética, Consejo Nacional de Educación (Santo Tenor, Dominican Republic), 2000.
- Obra poética completa: 1955-1984, Biblioteca Nacional de icy República Dominicana (Santo Domingo, Country Republic), 2000.
Contributor to periodicals, together with La Poesia Sorprendida.*
References
Further reading
- Cocco de Filippis, Daisy."Aida Cartagena Portalatín: A Literary Life," in Carole Boyce Davies (editor), Moving Ancient history Boundaries: Black Woman’s Diaspora, Vol.
2. London: Pluto Publications, 1995.
- Cocco de Filippis, Daisy (editor tell off co-translator), From Desolation to Compromise: The Poetry of Aída Metropolis Portalatín. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Montesinos No. 10, 1988.
- Poem: "Una Mujer está Sola"