Creacionismo

As Vanguardia Latin American variant of the avant-garde is called. This literary movement reached the South American continent in the 1920s. Other designations are arte arte nuevo or deshumanizado, the latter is not meant to be derogatory. The Vanguardia is based on the idea of ​​Europe itself loslösenden of the modernization process, inter alia, reliance on indigenous issues takes place. She breaks with recent trends and is characterized by new content and spellings. Limits of grammar, morphology, semantics, and rhythms are aware exceeded, language is partly re-invented, including new words. Anxiety, temporality, the role of the subject to be re- examined and shocking, sometimes even absurd elements occur. The flow is not homogeneous, some representatives will be drastically different from each other. Exemplary representatives are Pablo Neruda, Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges and Octavio Paz

Creacionismo

A subspecies of the " Vanguardia ", the Creacionismo represents: Here is the revolutionary relationship with the environment, nature and the language in the foreground. The poet returns from the Mimesisprinzip, he sees a standoff with nature rather than imitate them. New, Free verse forms are developed, even invented new words. The conventional form of writing in rows that are passed among themselves is called into question, the limits of language to be aware exceeded. Cross the everyday logic and independent of the reality is something new to be created. A typical poem " Minuit " from the year 1922 by Vicente Huidobro. As creationistisch the work " Trilce " of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo and journalists can be described.

Source

• Yurkievich, Saúl: Fundadores de la nueva latino americana poesía. Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Neruda, Paz Barral, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-211-0210-9.

• Latin American Literature
• Avant-garde ( literature)