Gestures Outside History. The Poetry of Leonel Rugama
Non-politicized gestures that fracture militant poetry and propose non-sacrificial community wanderings.
Essays
Johan Gotera
Maracaibo, 1974. PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Northwestern University (2023). He holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Simón Bolívar (2012) and a Master’s degree in Hispanic Language and Literatures from Boston University (2016). He has pursued advanced coursework and seminars at several Argentine institutions, including Fundación Mempo Giardinelli and Universidad Nacional de San Martín, as well as at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. At UNSAM, he completed specialized seminars on Spinoza with Diego Tatián and Marina Gainza, and with Vittorio Morfino (Università degli Studi di Milano). His scholarly work has appeared in journals and cultural magazines in Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States. He is the author of ‘Severo Sarduy: alcances de una novelística y otros ensayos’ (Caracas, 2005), ‘Octavio Armand contra sí mismo’ (Madrid, 2012), and ‘Deslindes del barroco. Erosión y archivo en Octavio Armand y Severo Sarduy’ (Leiden, 2016), and has published an extensive series of interviews with the Cuban poet Octavio Armand. More recently, he edited ‘Acercamientos a Octavio Armand’ (Mexico, 2022). His research interests include contemporary literature, poetry, Cuban literature, Latin American revolutions, political philosophy, processes of politicization, and forms of cultural experience that resist easy politicization.
