Poetic bodies from one ocean to another: Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana Rossetti (Hispanic); Denise Desautels and Louise Dupré (Quebecer) Cover Image

Cuerpos poéticos de un océano a otro: Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana Rossetti (hispanas); Denise Desautels y Louise Dupré (quebequesas)
Poetic bodies from one ocean to another: Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana Rossetti (Hispanic); Denise Desautels and Louise Dupré (Quebecer)

Author(s): Marina López Martínez
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: female poetry; body; writing; hand; time

Summary/Abstract: The body is a way of being in the world and to contemplate it. The body limits, interacts and enjoys while gender captivates and creates. Geography confines, epoch determines and circumstances may be decisive. The work exposes such aspects in the poetry of four women who belong to the same generation, but to different geographic areas. More specifically, it shows writing as a projection of the woman; the body as lyrical subject and object and hand as part and symbol of the fullness and the collapse of corporeality, especially female corporeality. The topics dealt with in the paper will be, on the one hand, how the body inhabits the world and what its relationship with the writing is, and on the other hand, the study will analyze the hand as a metonymy of the female body and the changes due to the passing of time.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 90-99
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Spanish
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