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La subjetividad, el otro y la naturaleza en la la poesía de Claribel Alegría Claribel Alegría

Stevens, Nury
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0067-9792
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1668635803311309

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2022, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Romance Languages and Literatures.
This dissertation examines the poetic work of Claribel Alegría from a thematic perspective, namely, subjectivity, the treatment of the self and nature. In this thematic evolution, her work demonstrates the relationship with the patriarchal and social justice discourse of the 20th century, which has favored a monolithic discourse, a soliloquy within the same paradigms. Alegría's poetry goes beyond committed Central American poetry dominated mainly by the patriarchal canon. She starts from a traditional poetic legacy, makes an appropriation of this established canon, and then rewrites poetry from a mature and compassionate point of view. My study proposes a revaluation of the poetic work of Alegría in the light of feminist, ecofeminist and philosophical concepts such as otherness, through a careful study of her poems. For the feminist and ecofeminist theoretical construction of this study, I have based my ideas on the thoughts of Simone de Beauvior, Luce Irigaray, Francoise D'Eaubone, and Ynestra King. Both feminism and ecofeminism propose an integrating and transforming vision of the human being in society and its relationship with the environment that includes everyone. This study emphasizes the concept proposed by Emmanuel Lévinas about the Other. This thinker proposes a philosophy of responsibility through the face of the Other, which is a revelation or epiphany that transcends the very self. Lévinas' ethics of the face allows an approach to the committed poetry of Alegría that elucidates a subjectivity open to commitment to the other. It is a subjectivity that moves outwards, that recognizes the alterity of the other. In taking charge of the other, memory is fundamental. Thus, Alegría becomes the memory of the murdered, the disappeared and the vulnerable in society. Through my analysis of Alegría's poetry, I decipher her poetic discourse and its rhetorical figures such as metaphors, synesthesias, anaphoras, metonyms, synecdoches, among others. Along with her rhetorical virtuosity and address the profound content of her poems. The poet manages to create a distinctive style that breaks down the dominant discourse, expressing a new discourse infused with a feminine and ecofeminist voice. The evolution of the female subject reveals a direct and forceful recovery of a new way of being a woman and a citizen in the face of the dominant patriarchal discourse.
Nicasio Urbina, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Carlos Gutiérrez, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jorge Espinoza, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
249 p.
Latin American Literature
Subjectivity; otherness; nature; ecofeminism

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  • Stevens, N. (2022). La subjetividad, el otro y la naturaleza en la la poesía de Claribel Alegría Claribel Alegría [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1668635803311309

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stevens, Nury. La subjetividad, el otro y la naturaleza en la la poesía de Claribel Alegría Claribel Alegría. 2022. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1668635803311309.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stevens, Nury. "La subjetividad, el otro y la naturaleza en la la poesía de Claribel Alegría Claribel Alegría." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1668635803311309

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