HOW DO THEY HANG FROM THE NATION? ON EPIC POETRY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Authors

  • Helena González Centre Dona i Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona

Keywords:

Chus Pato, Ana Romaní, epic poetry, feminism, nation, community

Abstract

Can the poet take charge of the “us” without succumbing to a sentimental idea of community with utopian postponement as its backbone? How can both the cause of women and that of the inferior nation be simultaneously debated without one of them tending to shadow the other beneath a totalizing umbrella? How do you construct a non-heroic epic appropriate to a time when mythic or technique narratives about the origin of a community are no longer possible? In their books of poems (published in 2000), Chus Pato and Ana Romaní present models which interrogate the community through the transformation of the epic’s poetic forms so as to question national identity through sexual difference.

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González, H. (2014). HOW DO THEY HANG FROM THE NATION? ON EPIC POETRY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (8), 13–27. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/10850

Issue

No. 8 (2013): Contemporary Poetic Subjects

Section

Monograph

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