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CALL FOR PAPERS NOMADIAS MAGAZINE No. 33 2024.

Special issue sex/dissident: 25 years since the decriminalization of sodomy in Chile, and 51 years since the first homosexual protest.

NOMADÍAS CUIR/QUEER/KUIR. A political/sexual dissident speech to think about the south-south.

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Memory, poetic writing and sexual difference: Two Chilean poets

Authors

  • Gilda Luongo Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The article proposes a feminist critical approach above two Chilean poets who wrote in dictatorial times. Elvira Hernández and Carmen Berenguer offer a poetic work that is possible to read, in the present, since the triangle of memory sexual difference- politic poetic. The critical view takes the flag as a figure en both texts: La bandera de Chile by Elvira Hernández and A media asta by Carmen Berenguer. The theoretical frame is composed by the complex ideas about memory in the works of Rossi Braidotti and Paul Ricoeur.

Keywords:

Memory, Difference, Poetry.