The Poetry of Absent Plenitude: on the Impossible Principle of the Caribbean
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Keywords

Anarchy
Quintero Herencia
Carlos Fonseca
Coronel Lágrimas
Post-hegemony
                                        

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The Poetry of Absent Plenitude: on the Impossible Principle of the Caribbean. (2019). Cuadernos De Literatura, 23(45). https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.cl23-45.ppap

Abstract

I approach the problem of the lack of foundation in the Caribbean academic discourse. This article deals with emptiness as the very heart of historicity. In this context, I mainly dialogue with La hoja de mar (:) Efecto archipiélago (2016), by Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, and the recent novel by Carlos Fonseca, Coronel Lágrimas (2015). It is about addressing the question of an-archy, the vacuum, and the lack of ground seen in terms of the archi-pelago that breaks the horizon of the principle of reason, since the archipelago effect is an effect without cause (Quintero Herencia 34), exactly what the principle of reason forbids.

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