Temps et VIH dans la poésie de Lois Pereiro : conjurer une sortie du présentisme à travers la poésie

This article examines, through the work of the Galician poet Lois Pereiro (1958-1995), the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in recent Spanish historiography and in post-transitional grammars, in order to re-qualify the biopolitical dimensions of the epidemic in Spain. Through the analysis of two litera...

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Main Author: María Beas Marín
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2025-07-01
Series:Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/21589
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Summary:This article examines, through the work of the Galician poet Lois Pereiro (1958-1995), the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in recent Spanish historiography and in post-transitional grammars, in order to re-qualify the biopolitical dimensions of the epidemic in Spain. Through the analysis of two literary texts by Lois Pereiro—the essay Modesta proposición para renunciar a facer xirar a roda hidráulica dunha cíclica historia universal da infamia (Luzes de Galiza, 1996) and the collection of poems Poesía última de amor e enfermidade (1992-1995), published in 1995—this study aims to highlight how literature, as a rhetorical exercise in language using its own means, gives rise to alternative experiences of time. These experiences challenge the interpretations of « presentism » as theorised by François Hartog and, in the Spanish context, those related to « transitional disenchantment ».
ISSN:1957-7761