Name:

Ánxela Lema París (UDC)

Dissertation title:

Heteronormativity and Construction of the Poetic Subject in Contemporary Galician Poetry

Name of the advisor:

Profa. Dra. Carme Fernández Pérez-Sanjulián & Marta Segarra Montaner

Line of research:

Literaturas e Culturas Galega e Portuguesa e Literatura Medieval

Abstract:

This project proposes an analysis of the critical reception of Galician poetry of the early 21st century with the main goal of showing how collective imagination, built in a heteronormative way, affects and limits the reading process of love and/or erotic texts. Taking into account the reception of these works, the study will also analyse the factors that determine why texts with the same communicative characteristics are sometimes marked as homoerotic and others are not marked as heteronormative, as they are supposed to be. In this regard, attention will be given to the way the figure of the author, its political and social role, as well as its sexual orientation or the masculinist character of language have an unconscious impact on the way poetic voices are interpreted by readers and critics. We are thus speaking of a new type of biographism that sexualizes the voices in relation to the sex-gender system of the body that produces them and assuming the heteronormativity of a text if it is not openly marked otherwise. With the aim of highlighting all of the above, we will include the other readings found in the texts if we ignore, on the one hand, the conception of love and/or sex as homogeneous, constant and unchangeable, and, on the other hand, the sexualising effect the empiric body has on the poetic voices it builds. The aim is to highlight the existence of a lesbian and gay Galician poetry that is being silenced.

Program:

2014-2015

Keywords:

Galician literature, Galician poetry, heteronormativity, poetic subject, figure of the author, literary reception

Translation:

Original language