Laboratory of rewrites and interscripts: appropriate poetics in Debajo de la Lengua (2009), by Héctor Hernández Montecinos

Abstract

Héctor Hernández Montecinos (1979), an author belonging to the so called generation of Novísimos Chilean poets, as a recurring mechanism he practices the appropriation as a technique, essentially in his work Debajo de la lengua (2009), which contains more than 250 rewritings of Latin American authors. In it, demarcating a network of relations with which he appropriates, coauthoral procedures are developed for the construction of an archive of sources from Latin American poetry of the XX and XXI century. This work intends to do a review of the poetics of Hernández Montecinos based on the analysis of appropriation as rewriting, employing the notions put forth by Cristina Rivera Garza (2013) and Agustín Fernández Mallo (2018). In this sense, we inquire into the recurrent self-reflection carried out by rewriting of the work, especially emphasizing in the coauthoral processes gestated in section “El Secreto de mi mano” in Debajo de la lengua, denominated as inter-writings, where a textual exchange and intervention is exercised between Héctor Hernández Montecinos and the poets: Ernesto Carrión, Manuel Barrios, Allan Mills, Paula Ilabaca y Yaxkin Melchy, in the pursuit of a collective poetic.