Revolutionary feminisms: socialism and patriarchy in Alicia Galaz and Cecilia Vicuña

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Published: Dec 30, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7764/Aisth.72.13

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Francisco Simon Salinas
Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Playa Ancha
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4046-0429

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This article studies the intersections between socialism and feminism in two poetic texts published in Chile in the early seventies: Jaula gruesa para el animal hembra (1972) by Alicia Galaz and Sabor a mí by Cecilia Vicuña. Both texts are analyzed from a sociocritic point of view, highlighting the correlations between the poetry of these authors with public discourses of the epoch around women’s liberation and patriarchy. Thus, it is proposed that both poets aim to endow the political project of the Popular Unity with a gender perspective, capable to think about women as political subjetcs, beyond their roles as housewives or labor workers. Galaz discuss sexism within leftist militance and the invisibilization of women in the revolutionary imagination; while Vicuña develops a Freudo-Marxist activism through which she associates the utopia for a new society with the exercise of a polymorphic sexuality.      


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Author Biography

Francisco Simon Salinas, Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Playa Ancha

 

Doctor en Literatura, de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Actualmente me desempeño como investigador de posdoctorado en el Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de Playa Ancha, con el proyecto Fondecyt 3200317 "La república de los poetas: imaginación democrática y movimientos sociales en la poesía chilena". 

Los últimos artículos que he publicado son los siguientes: 

- "Poéticas de la razón aporofóbica: testimonios de la prisión política y la criminalización de la pobreza en el Chile contemporáneo". Revista de Humanidades, no. 43, 2021, pp. 237-264.

- “La mala leche que las parió: ciudadanías neoliberales en la poesía chilena del siglo XXI”. Coautoría con Biviana Hernández. Revista chilena de literatura, no. 96, 2017, pp.209-234.

- “Cuánta destrucción en los nidos americanos / Cuántas patrias arruinadas y marchitas: poéticas de infancia en el Chile del siglo XXI”. Coautoría con Biviana Hernández. Mitologías hoy, no. 15, 2017, pp. 297-315.

- “Seducciones homoeróticas de medio siglo: estrategias de representación del deseo en la poesía de Jorge Cáceres y Jorge Onfray”. Nomadías, no. 23, 2017, pp. 9-29.

- “Homo feminae lupus: la representación de una ciudadanía antropofágica en la poesía chilena de posgolpe”. Acta Literaria, no. 52, 2016, pp. 163-183.