Fragments of silent bustling Nancy Cárdenas and Violeta Barrientos

Abstract

In this article, some inkling of normativity linked to the gender division is problematized from a feminist theoretical framework. The qualitative approach crosses History and Greek mythology to recount a contemporary situation through a comparative analysis of two Latin American poems written in the 1990s. The Mexican poetess Nancy Cárdenas and The Peruvian poetess Violeta Barrientos explore and construct a feminine lyrical subject that breaks with the model of femininity and canonic love. The proposal presented contributes to the historiography of lesbian poetry written by women in the twentieth century and offers elements of stylistic analysis. Cárdenas refers to a French woman writer whose literary work was controversial. Barrientos refers to one of the emblematic myths of female monstrosity. Their verses reveal the erotic-affective relation between women and show the difficulties and resolutions to break into a way of life as well as having sexual practices that deviate from the socially accepted. The analysis indicates experience as a process in the formation of subjectivity because they show female subjects that propose and carry out actions instead of being inert or only receptive subjects.