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17 - Poetry-Fugue

Latin American Women and the Lyrical Move

from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

Ileana Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk
Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina
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Summary

Musical discourse about poetry, especially when late nineteenth and early twentieth century traditional forms integrate distinctive melodic prosody, seems an appropriate metaphorical frame to understand contemporary Latin American women's verses. This chapter focuses on key periods in Latin America, in which women poets have sought to capture, imitate, or downright reject poetic modes of (self-) representation. It is important to remember that, while many of these poets articulate their own gender discourse in their lyrics, feminin difference is only one of many themes recurring in their work. The 1920s and 1930s are considered to be some of the most active years for the posmodernistas to break rhythm and introduce new tropes and lyrical schemes. For Latin American female poets, the struggle to maintain an aesthetic "feminine" voice encourages them to turn to the quicker, often harsher rhythms and unusual auditory sounds of avant-garde poetry.
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