Legitimizing structures in the rhetoric of chilean modernism: creationism
The paper analyses the patterns and forms of aesthetic legitimation typical to Creacionismo (Creationism), a poetic movement promoted by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro. The poet’s ingenious personality and his innovating spirit left the mark of genuine cultural synthesis within the dynamics of the Hispanic-American modernism. Huidobro provides Hispanic literature with a unique, noteworthy and authentic configuration within a cultural field that witnessed the dissemination and the clashes of the 20th century’s avant-garde and modernist movements. The patterns exhibited by the creationist manifestos confirm an original spirit, brimming with cosmopolitanism and creativity, a holistic intellectual consciousness, inaugural visionariness and a well-articulated critical and theoretical groundwork, further illustrated by the poetic output.
Keywords: modernism, creationism, the poetics if avant-garde, modernist critical awareness, cultural legitimacy, cosmopolitisme