Del Locus Amoenus a la vereda tropical: poesía dominicana siglo XX

Abstract

Without a doubt, the imagined community as nation in the Dominican Republic was a response to the threat of dissolution of national autonomy by foreign hands, in an environment marked by the traumatic experience of modernization introduced by the elite. Faced with the question of identity, the poetry of Manuel del Cabral responds with the projection of the figure of a political boss, a revolutionary Creole hero, Compadre Mon (“Buddy Ray”), in whom the tradition virtues of the Dominican peasantry are summed up, with the inclusion of the African element from an integrating perspective but eclipsed by distance: Blacks are the Other, Haitians and “Cocolos”.