To write is to make order. Women reconstruct identities with poetryFor numerous women poets of the 20th century, the concept of identity and the concept of boundary are often two parts of the same discourse. This paper/article examines how some women writers have used words, either in prose or poetry, as a tool to construct or reconstruct identities so as to make order out of their past, albeit arbitrarily at times, and thus make it tolerable. For some of them, the reconstruction of one’s life, that is salvation as achieved through writing, requires the shifting of many boundaries—social, psychological, geographical, etc. Such is 136Balthazar, 2, 2021DOI: https://doi.org/10.13130/balthazar/15331This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licensethe point of view here used to look at the writings of Agota Kristof, Janet Frame, Mariella Mehr, Jozefina Dautbegović, Dalia Rabikovitch.
Il concetto di identità e il concetto di confine in molte poetesse del Novecento spesso sono due parti dello stesso discorso. Questo contributo esamina come alcune scrittrici abbiano usato la parola, in versi e in poesia, come strumento di costruzione o di ricostruzione di identità con lo scopo ricreare un ordine, talvolta arbitrario, al passato al fine di poterlo rendere tollerabile. In alcune di queste autrici la salvezza attraverso la scrittura necessita lo spostamento di molti confini – sociali, psicologici, geografici ecc – per poter ricostruire vite. Da questo punto di vista si trattano autrici come Agota Kristof, Janet Frame, Mariella Mehr, Jozefina Dautbegović, Dalia Rabikovitch.
Scrivere è creare un ordine. Donne che con la poesia ricompongono identità
Anna Toscano
2021-01-01
Abstract
To write is to make order. Women reconstruct identities with poetryFor numerous women poets of the 20th century, the concept of identity and the concept of boundary are often two parts of the same discourse. This paper/article examines how some women writers have used words, either in prose or poetry, as a tool to construct or reconstruct identities so as to make order out of their past, albeit arbitrarily at times, and thus make it tolerable. For some of them, the reconstruction of one’s life, that is salvation as achieved through writing, requires the shifting of many boundaries—social, psychological, geographical, etc. Such is 136Balthazar, 2, 2021DOI: https://doi.org/10.13130/balthazar/15331This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licensethe point of view here used to look at the writings of Agota Kristof, Janet Frame, Mariella Mehr, Jozefina Dautbegović, Dalia Rabikovitch.I documenti in ARCA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.