Mothers with their own room: some contemporary Argentine poets

Abstract

The work analyzes, from the framework of gender theory, the poetry of some contemporary Argentine writers. After a brief theoretical and historical review, there is a reading of poems by Wittner, Iannamico, Mariasch, Bejerman, Vera, Arnolfi Villarraza, Larralde, Malusardi. Based on the poetics of each author, the way in which figurations and subjective positions about motherhood and writing appear is indicated. This journey allows us to point out the existence of a new way of conceiving the relationship of women with their desire to be mothers, their relationship with writing, with their partner, among others. This allows pointing out a new position, which, in the spectrum of freedom to decide, makes this choice a possibility to be lived with less conflict, and to appear in the poems neither as a claim nor as a complaint, but as a moment that is integrates a broader vision of the possibilities of women and their domestic and literary work.