Cuban playwright José Triana has published works that stage domestic crimes committed through Afro-Cuban rituals, which gest explore the physical and sound possibilities of the word, giving greater relevance to “space poetry” (Artaud) than to verbal language. The article aims to analyze in Medea en el espejo (published in 1960) and La noche de los asesinos (published in 1965) the ways in which violence responds to an aesthetic search for Triana, which puts the Artaud’s program into dialogue with African religious  practices. While other studies have already examined continuities between La noche de los asesinos and the cruelty theater, the signs of the setting have not yet been addressed and this appropriation of Artaud in Medea en el espejo has not yet been analyzed. By examining the dramatic text and the virtuality of the spectacular text, we will try to observe that these ...

The journals Ombligo and Vital led by Vicente Huidobro between 1934 and 1935 present a repertoire of discourses of the Russian Revolution, the workers' movement in the US and Chilean conservative policies that lead to redefine its figure of poet, usually typecast in the artistic side of the Latin American vanguards. This article evaluates the debates between Huidobro and other Chilean intellectuals, poets, literary critics and political leaders gathered in these publications. After analyzing the controversial speech from argumentation theory (Perelman, 1989), we observe a ridicule of rhetorical argumentation policy through ironic commentaries that never fail to denounce the doctrines of right. These organs of diffusion, then build a sustained write in the irony in order to contest a privileged place in the literary field, forcing the own Huidobro to review his project and, consequently, ...