The trace of the silenced voices of latin american women poets: a postcolonial and feminist analysis of Alaíde Foppa’s poems in "Las palabras"

• Violeta Orozco Barrera ^[1]
  1. [1] Rutgers University

     Rutgers University

     City of New Brunswick, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Cuadernos de ALDEEU, ISSN 0740-0632, Nº. 34, 2019, págs. 89-108
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Until very recently, women’s literature that had expressed a feminist viewpoint had been excluded from the Latin American literary canon. The intellectual and political activism Foppa conducted in Mexico with the foundation of the first Latin American feminist magazine, Fem, showcased the most important feminist voices of the sixties and seventies. The poems in Las palabras are a sample of a subaltern subject choosing to speak about an uncomfortable topic in Latin American literature: the experience of being a Latin American woman and the censorship, pain and injustice it entails. From the viewpoint of feminism and postcolonial theory, the poetry of Foppa presents an analysis of the radical role women’s writing can have for Latin America. It is possible to study these elements in the poems compiled and relate them to postcolonial categories such as subalternity, marginalized female voices and literatures, and the rewriting of women’s stories and histories in Latin America.