El imaginario animal en la escritura de César Dávila y Kelver Axuna aproximación a la poética fluvial andina

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This piece of research deals with the representation of animals in the lyric arts. In accordance with the places of origin of the authors who form our corpus, we underscore the role played by the imagination in awakening nature, specifically in Andean fluvial spaces. In the Latin American context, César Dávila Andrade and Kelver Ax have created unusual animal imaginaries in which they favour microorganisms and collective animals in general. On the one hand, representing animals in literature entails having knowledge of them as well as their worlds. On the other hand, it requires mastering those tropological processes which reveal a certain ethics and exchanges with other imaginaries. To better understand the evolution and preservation of animal representations, this work carries out an exploration directed at locating animal isotopes derived from different literary eras. Considering how we are gradually further away from the real presence of animals and closer to their representations, we have based our examinations in rural imaginaries, since these representations go from spaces into texts. The analysis of those specific cases contained in our corpus evidences the interrelations between imaginaries, cultural experience, and poetic expression. As a general conclusion, we can argue that what unites and confronts both authors is an intrinsically personal way to integrate universal imaginaries and to articulate them with their own imaginaries without assimilating them, so that they each preserve their own coherence. Consequently, both authors, far from creating friction, develop a plural imaginary for the convergence and reflection of those emotions that awaken nature, bearing traces of the animism of ancient Andean culture and current environmental concerns. Our initial hypothesis is thus proved: the poetic images of these authors are fed from the province, the periphery, the interstice, and are in constant dialogue with all other inherited imaginaries.