Representations of feminine subjectivities in <i>Babel bárbara</i>, by Cristina Peri Rossi

Authors

  • Maria de Fatima Alves Oliveira Marcari Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP FCL Assis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2017n22a387

Keywords:

Female authorship poetry, feminist criticism, neo-baroque.

Abstract

In the collection of poems Babel Barbara (1991), the Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi undertakes a search for the archetypal and original woman,  before the patriarchal culture. For this, the author proposes the construction of a feminine symbolic language opposed to phallogocentric logic. In our work, we intend to analyze how the author reconstructs a primordial subjectivity, centered on the feminine, in opposition to Lacan's theories, which denies to the feminine any ontological protagonism. For this, we will count on the support of the critical studies of Luce Irigaray (1985, 1992, 1994) and Cixous (1995), as well as the theorizations of Severo Sarduy (1978) on the neo-baroque.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2017n22a387

Author Biography

Maria de Fatima Alves Oliveira Marcari, Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP FCL Assis

Professora Assistente Doutora junto ao Depto. Letras Modernas, área de Literaturas de Língua Espanhola da Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista - Faculdade de Ciencias e Letras de Assis.

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Published

2017-06-20

How to Cite

Marcari, M. de F. A. O. (2017). Representations of feminine subjectivities in &lt;i&gt;Babel bárbara&lt;/i&gt;, by Cristina Peri Rossi. Texto Poético, 13(22), 235–249. https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2017n22a387

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 22 (2017): Dossier Glauco Mattoso

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