The impurity of the conversational: vanguard, autobiography and history in the textual crossings of José Coronel Urtecho

Abstract

Taking as basis the analysis of some texts by José Coronel Urtecho, this article maintains that a conversational poetics deploys as a rhetoric that goes beyond its uses in poetry to insert itself into a heterogeneous discursive space that includes autobiography, essay and history. The context of the Sandinista revolution of the 1980s allows conversational rhetoric to be incorporated into an autobiographical logic of judging history through literary and plastic representation which reorders the social hierarchies. This context also activates the writing function (a la Barthes) that brings to mind the Baroque position of literature in a gesture characteristic of Latin American culture.