Authors

Alberto López Martín, Valparaiso UniversityFollow

Cartografías afectivas para tiempos de crisis. Emocionalidad textual en la poesía española reciente

Abstract

This article pays attention to the mobilizing potential of certain poetic productions in the context of the 2008 Spanish financial crisis. From the perspective of Affect and Emotion studies, I use Jonathan Flatley’s notion of affective cartography to illustrate how Antonio Orihuela and Pablo García Casado’s poems extrapolate from personal dimensions of the financial crisis’ drama (unemployment, evictions, etc.) to the socio-political sphere. I argue that, in such context, the poems studied possess the potentiality of arousing an empowering empathy and indignation in a historically-situated reader.

Bio Note

Alberto López Martín (Ph.D. Florida State University) is an Assistant Professor at Valparaiso University. He specializes in 20^th-21^st century Iberian cultural production, with a focus in contemporary poetry and cultural politics, through the lens of affect and emotion studies. He has published articles in different journals and monographs on poets such as Antonio Gamoneda, Pere Gimferrer, Fernando Pessoa and César Vallejo.

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Recommended Citation

López Martín, Alberto (2019) "Cartografías afectivas para tiempos de crisis. Emocionalidad textual en la poesía española reciente," The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.20429/cr.2019.100102
Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/thecoastalreview/vol10/iss1/2