“To enter oneself”: the spatialization of the subject in Julia de Burgos’ poetry

  • María Lucía Puppo Universidad Católica Argentina / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET
  • Alicia Salomone Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/2017-2135

Keywords:

Julia de Burgos, Women’s Poetry, Latin American Literature, Modern Poetry, Space

Abstract

A great number of spatial metaphors shape feminine subjectivity in the poetic works of Julia de Burgos (Carolina, Puerto Rico, 1914–Nueva York, 1953). Appealing to the hypothesis by Michel Collot (2005) which interprets the “spatialization of the subject” as a characteristic note of the modern lyrical pact, we intend to examine how, through this strategy, Julia de Burgosʼpoetry endorses diving in her interiority as a privileged way to create her own poetic world. In this sense, we hope to demonstrate that Burgosʼ writing integrates concerns inherited from Modernism and echoes the resignifications carried out by Spanish American women poets in the first decades of the twentieth century, in regard to the struggle to express a distinctive, autonomous and critical poetic voice.

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Author Biographies

María Lucía Puppo, Universidad Católica Argentina / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET

Investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, y docente de la Universidad Católica Argentina, donde actualmente se desempeña como directora del Centro de Estudios de Literatura Comparada “María Teresa Maiorana”. Publicó los libros La música del agua. Poesía y referencia en la obra de Dulce María Loynaz (Biblos, 2006) y Entre el vértigo y la ruina: poesía contemporánea y experiencia urbana (Biblos, 2013). Junto a Mariano García y María José Punte coeditó el volumen Espacios, imágenes y vectores: desafíos actuales de las literaturas comparadas (Miño y Dávila, 2015).

Alicia Salomone, Universidad de Chile

Doctora en Literatura Chilena e Hispanoamericana. Académica del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos y del Departamento de Literatura de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile. Realiza investigación en historia cultural y literaria latinoamericana, con énfasis en el estudio de la poesía de mujeres. Entre sus publicaciones destacan los libros Alfonsina Storni. Mujeres, modernidad y literatura (2006) y Poesía e imaginación poética en el Cono Sur, 1960-2010 (2015).

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Published

2017-10-09

How to Cite

Puppo, M. L., & Salomone, A. (2017). “To enter oneself”: the spatialization of the subject in Julia de Burgos’ poetry. Anclajes , 21(3), 61–76. https://doi.org/10.19137/2017-2135

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2017): septiembre-diciembre

Section

Dossier

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