Borderline 2000
Borderline 2000

The corporal space in the feminine imaginary at the intercultural crossroad

Summary/Abstract: The present project aims to analyze the manner in which women from two different cultural spaces, Italy and Romania, portray the image of the body in their poetry. The corporeal visions that emerge from the feminine imaginary of this volume have nothing to do with the misconception that women’s writings are essentially pure, delicate and introvert. By contrast, all poems envisage the image of the body not as a matricial space, a germinating locus that amplifies the vital seeds, but as a place of identitary dissolution, rather a space of death than of life. The surgical, raw imaginary that surrounds the body in the lyrics of these powerful women deconstructs the myth of the feminine fragility. The convergence point of the intercultural imaginary coagulated in the Borderline 2000anthology (including references like Ruxandra Cesereanu, Ofelia Prodan, Antonella Anedda, Maria Grazia Calandrone) focuses on the same aesthetic of cruelty which transcends the cultural boundaries. Women as writers, regardless of their nationality, create a unique and independent voice in the field of contemporary literary works that requires a repositioning of the critical perspective. The body becomes the manifest of and old, but still new power – the power of feminine poetry.

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