“Bringing the World into the World”: Writing Poetry as Action and Challenge to Reality

Authors

  • Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo Queen Mary University - Inglaterra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i13.5130

Keywords:

Differenza sessuale, bringing the world into the world, Adriana Cavarero, Diotima,, poetry, reality, birth

Abstract

This article deals with poetry as a space for socio-symbolic praxis for the feminine subject who writes. Taking writing as “the incessant, the interminable” according to Maurice Blanchot’s words, this article analyses the concept of “corpo-reality” as a lyric strategy whereby the specific feminine experience transcends into the universality through the action of writing. This strategy implies an alteration of reality and determines an action based upon birth. This point of view, supported by the theory “bringing the world into the world” developed by the philosophical group Diotima, particularly Adriana Cavarero, establishes the need for a sexual difference perspective in order to question the parameters that have constructed the poetic tradition and have relegated women’s position to the place of atopia.

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Author Biography

Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo, Queen Mary University - Inglaterra

Associate Lecturer en Queen Mary University of London (2005-) y Visiting Lecturer, University of Westminster, Londres (2012-). Miembro del Centro de escritura de mujeres contemporáneas (CCWW) del Instituto de Lenguas Modernas (IML) de la universidad de Londres. Mi campo de investigación es el género y la literatura, específicamente la poesía y he publicado diversos artículos y libros en Reino Unido y España, destacan: Constructing Feminine Poetics in the Works of a Late Twentieth-Century Catalan Woman Poet: Maria-Mercè Marçal (2014). Cambridge: MHRA Publications, 90. ‘Pensadoras mediterráneas y escritoras catalanas: La poética de la diferencia sexual’ (2011). En: Cuadernos del Aleph, no. 3, pp. 90-107.

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Published

2018-06-19

How to Cite

Díaz-Vicedo, N. (2018) “‘Bringing the World into the World’: Writing Poetry as Action and Challenge to Reality”, Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, (13), pp. 281–295. doi: 10.18002/cg.v0i13.5130.