Poetics on Justice in Mexican Modernism. Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Salvador Díaz Mirón

Abstract

This article looks into the meaning of justice in the work of two Mexican modernist poets: Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Salvador Díaz Mirón. Considering the intersection of Law in Literature, this article explores the relation between poetry and justice developed by these two authors, the works of whom are fundamental not only in Mexico but in the rest of Latin America as well. The first part of the article reflects on the importance of the modernist movement as an aesthetic and political project to highlight its impact on Latin America as a singular epistemology. The second part aims at studying these poets literary pieces, as well as the biographical aspects and texts written in prose that reveal their vision about the law, basic freedoms and justice.