Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz
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description: This dissertation analyzes the literary production of Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez, and Eva Ortiz, three Salvadoran poets who participated actively in the Civil War of El Salvador (1980-1992), and produced their literary work in that same period. It explores, from the perspective of Nomadism developed by Rosi Braidotti, the resignification of the feminine subjectivity, as well as the construction of new figurations in order to articulate a counter discourse that challenges the official hegemonic and heteropatriarcal narrative. In the same order, it questions the validity of the cultural codes established and imposed by those groups that hold the political and economic power. These female poets of the war opt for the “margin”, as defined by bell hooks, a place of resistance and multiple possibilities and, in the textual space and as located subjects, they appropriate or claim their sexual difference and the axes of differentiation that intersect it. By means of this appropriation, Quintana, Rodríguez, and Ortiz formulate in their poetics other discursive codes that allow them to de-identify themselves from that feminine subjectivity erected by the heteropatriarcal vision. This process of de-identification enables them to transgress the social norms, scrutinize and redefine themselves, elaborate a counter History (as theorized by Foucault) of the Salvadoran civil war, and cartography new routes towards the construction of their own female genealogy. These poets are active agents that resignify themselves and by doing that, they transcend their own individuality. On the other hand, in order to disseminate their literary work, Quintana, Rodríguez, and Ortiz opt for alternative spaces (independent publishing houses, cartoneras, poetry festivals, literary groups, non-profit organizations, among others) that surfaced during the postwar period and are run by poets, writers, feminine organizations, and cultural activists with a vision of culture and literature that oppose…
abstract: This dissertation analyzes the literary production of Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez, and Eva Ortiz, three Salvadoran poets who participated actively in the Civil War of El Salvador (1980-1992), and produced their literary work in that same period. It explores, from the perspective of Nomadism developed by Rosi Braidotti, the resignification of the feminine subjectivity, as well as the construction of new figurations in order to articulate a counter discourse that challenges the official hegemonic and heteropatriarcal narrative. In the same order, it questions the validity of the cultural codes established and imposed by those groups that hold the political and economic power. These female poets of the war opt for the “margin”, as defined by bell hooks, a place of resistance and multiple possibilities and, in the textual space and as located subjects, they appropriate or claim their sexual difference and the axes of differentiation that intersect it. By means of this appropriation, Quintana, Rodríguez, and Ortiz formulate in their poetics other discursive codes that allow them to de-identify themselves from that feminine subjectivity erected by the heteropatriarcal vision. This process of de-identification enables them to transgress the social norms, scrutinize and redefine themselves, elaborate a counter History (as theorized by Foucault) of the Salvadoran civil war, and cartography new routes towards the construction of their own female genealogy. These poets are active agents that resignify themselves and by doing that, they transcend their own individuality. On the other hand, in order to disseminate their literary work, Quintana, Rodríguez, and Ortiz opt for alternative spaces (independent publishing houses, cartoneras, poetry festivals, literary groups, non-profit organizations, among others) that surfaced during the postwar period and are run by poets, writers, feminine organizations, and cultural activists with a vision of culture and literature that oppose…
author: Ramos, Juana M.
keywords: Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, Women's Studies, Salvadoran Literature, Salvadoran Civil War Poetry, Language, Kenny Rodriguez, Leyla Quintana, Eva Ortiz, Feminist Theory, Salvadoran History, Guerrilla Women, Salvadoran Women Poets
date published: 2018-02-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:00:04Z
provider: City University of New York - Graduate Center
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York