And if there were a translation at the center, thenwhat?: appropriation and translingualism in Otono (sic) (2017), by Luis Moreno Villamediana

Abstract

This article seeks to study the ways in which appropriation and translingualism are executed as aesthetic procedures in the work Otono (sic) by the Venezuelan poet Luis Moreno Villamediana (1966). In it, through the use of materials from various poetic works, the notions of ownership and authorship are disfigured, while simultaneously expressing a perennial foreignness. Furthermore, the poem’s construction as a thinking entity exists as a theory of its translation process in continuous versions. In this way, I seek to emphasize translation as a mechanism from which appropriation emerges, which is reiterated, with different features, in the cases analyzed in the work, promulgating a poetics to be classified within 21st-century Venezuelan poetry.