Keiser University - Institutional RepositoryTierra tostada: se desvela el misterio indioDavidTraumannauthorEn sus respectivos prólogos, primero en el poemario Breve suma (1947) y años más tarde en Poemas de un joven (1962, 1982, 1986, 2005), los antólogos Pablo Antonio Cuadra y Ernesto Cardenal insisten en que el poeta Joaquín Pasos había sido capaz de penetrar la psiquis de los indígenas nicaragüenses y darnos un cuadro fidedigno de su existencia y modo de pensar. Según Cuadra y Cardenal, un hombre blanco, vástago de una de las familias oligárquicas de Granada, estaba posicionado para describir a la población indígena como ellos, los poetas de la Vanguardia, imaginaban que se veían a sí mismos: seres pasivos, enfermos o moribundos, desolados y estáticos. Críticos literarios subsiguientes se distanciaron en algo de esta fantasía, pero siguieron tomando los “indios” de Pasos a nivel literal, o sea, como seres vivientes en su momento. En este texto se hace ver que el cuadro pintado por Pasos se limita a los varones: las mujeres indígenas irradian erotismo y fertilidad. Luego se postula que Pasos no tuvo la intención de retratar la realidad etnográfica de los indígenas, sino que más bien éstos son metáforas de sus propios sentimientos desolados de impotencia, desesperación y tristeza a medida que reflexionaba sobre el fracaso que consideraba había sido su vida mientras, asediado por el alcoholismo, se debilitaba un siempre precario estado de salud, resultando en su fallecimiento a temprana edad. -------------------- In their respective prologues, first to the poetry collection Breve suma (1947) and years later to Poemas de un joven (1962, 1982, 1986, 2005), the anthologists Pablo Antonio Cuadra and Ernesto Cardenal insist that the poet Joaquín Pasos had been able to penetrate the psyche of the Nicaraguan indigenous people and give us a faithful portrait of their existence and way of thinking. According to Cuadra and Cardenal, a white man, the scion of one of Granada's oligarchic families, was positioned to describe the indigenous population as they, the Vanguard poets, imagined themselves: passive, sick, or dying beings, desolate and static. Subsequent literary critics distanced themselves somewhat from this fantasy, but continued to take Pasos's "Indians" literally, that is, as living beings in his time. This text suggests that Pasos's painting focuses solely on men: the indigenous women radiate eroticism and fertility. It then posits that Pasos did not intend to portray the ethnographic reality of the indigenous people, but rather that they are metaphors for his own desolate feelings of powerlessness, despair, and sadness as he reflected on what he considered a failure of his life. Beset by alcoholism, his already precarious health deteriorated, ultimately leading to his early death.Literature of Spanish America. Nicaragua [PQ7510]2026Keiser University Latin American CampusMonograph

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