Keywords
Aimé Césaire
Virgilio Piñera
performance
intertextualidad
adaptación literaria
Abstract
Based on the notion of Caribbean discourse as a permanent transaction between linguistic or aesthetic principles imposed by Western traditions and expressive models that naturally “arise” from the unstable subsoil of the popular tradition of the insular Caribbean, this essay examines the allegorical or symbolic emphasis of several meta-literary devices in two representative plays in the region. The strategic adaptation of a classic literary model in Une Tempête (1969), by Aimé Césaire, and the symbolic conceptual crisis in the intertextual game of Electra Garrigó (1941), by Virgilio Piñera, are interpreted as textually explicit strategies that, despite of the wide sociocultural distance between the two authors, contribute to think the Caribbean as a timeless continuity of models of
exchange, translation and redefinition of dissimilar cultural traditions.
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