Questioning Western thought from the outskirts of the world: Manrique's poetry in a poem by Enrique Verástegui

Abstract

The work studies the way in which the poem “Breve estudio de Jorge Manrique” by Enrique Verástegui raises a questioning of the values of Western culture as part of an approach aimed at making visible the coloniality of power that organizes knowledge and being. The hypothesis indicates that in the analyzed text the legacy of Manrique's poetry is singled out and reinterpreted, separating it from the framework of meaning of tradition. Thus, the worldview established by eurocentric reason is transcended to vindicate, instead, certain conceptions about existence, death and the passage of time. This operation of meaning not only calls into question the centrality of European culture, but also subtracts other notions from its universal categories that are recovered in a dissident and counterhegemonic gesture.