Medardo Angel Silva: Unuterrable voices and being cholo in Guayaquil

The article looks to assess the particular power that Silva’s sensibility came to have over his city of origin, exploring what are some of the major sentiments or tropes that enabled Silva’s paradigmatic place in the city’s understanding of itself and its way of being? What are some of the major eff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Benavides, Hugo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Ecuador
Institución:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repositorio:Revista ICONOS
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/204
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/204
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Medardo Angel Silva
cholo
poesía
cultura popular
poetry
popular culture
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Sumario:The article looks to assess the particular power that Silva’s sensibility came to have over his city of origin, exploring what are some of the major sentiments or tropes that enabled Silva’s paradigmatic place in the city’s understanding of itself and its way of being? What are some of the major effects of sentiments that catapulted themselves again and again to the city’s multiple generations? The article also explores how these same effects of sentiments would contribute to Silva’s high regard in the official culture, and evidences the fact that Silva’s iconic figure has continuously and historically reflected the city’s own ambivalence over its own questions of origins and identity. Finally, the article poses that in Silva, fleeing streams of Guayaquilean generations have had a mirror with myriad levels of realities upon which to reflect their own bitter truths of un-belonging, colonial nightmares, and rejecting consequences of civilizing manners and norms.