Violencia, amor romántico y perversión en “Baviolada” de Rocío Silva Santisteban

• Main Author: Richard Leonardo-Loayza
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla 2020-12-01
• Series: Ambigua
• Subjects: silva santisteban; political violence; poetry of violence; romantic love; perversion; rape
• Online Access: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/ambigua/article/view/5214/4727

Rocío Silva Santisteban (Lima, 1963) is the author of the poetry book Las hijas del terror (2007). This book addresses the complicated situation that women had to face as victims of the political violence that swept through Peru in the 1980s. In this situation, women were violated both by subversive movements and by state repression apparatuses. Silva Santisteban sets out to narrate this horror from the perspective of the women themselves, positioned as victims in these political confrontations. The purpose of this article is to analyze «BAvioLADA», one of the most representative poems of Las hijas del terror. The hypothesis to be demonstrated is that this text presents a staging of the treatment that women underwent in the context of the internal war, in which they were reduced to a sexual object, not only by members of subversive movements, but by the members of the Peruvian Armed Forces.