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Laboring Histories: The "Reconciliation" Of Maternity In The Poetry Of Laurie Ann Guerrero, Larissa M. Mercado-López

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Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “facultad,” this study of poetry by Laurie Ann Guerrero identifies an emergent “maternal facultad,” a consciousness honed through the bodily and social experiences of mestiza maternity. Guerrero’s poems, “Babies Under the Skin” and “Reconciliation,” reveal how such consciousness is ignited through the mother’s body; her transformed body and subjectivity implicate her in multiple histories and violences of colonization and the medical/birthing industry. This study argues for the need for mothers to continue writing their bodies—to speak the “mess” of the body and of mother-work—creating an epistemically fertile site of knowledge production.

"Para Romper Con Todo": Transgresiones Y Rupturas Del Movimiento Kloaka En Los Poemas Inaugurales De Mariela Dreyfus, Mary Soto Y Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas, Rocío Ferreira

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A study of the counterculture collective Movimiento Kloaka in Peru in the early 1980s, for its ideological thought and creative production, through the work of Peruvian poets Mariela Dreyfus, Mary Soto and Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas. Their poems were published in literary-cultural magazines during the movement’s boom, and reveal personal and transgressive voices where violence, sex, desire and the rejection of the bourgeois patriarchal system are present. The poets’ social approach frames crude experiences and realities that allow the authors to question the place assigned to women, while transforming the poetic tradition.

Un estudio de tres poetas peruanas del Movimiento Kloaka de …