Poesía testimonial escrita por mujeres:memoria de la violencia en Colombia

• Main Author: Angélica Hoyos Guzmán
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Valle 2018-12-01
• Series: La Manzana de la Discordia
• Subjects: Testimonial poetry; female writing; critique of memory; affective turn; survival
• Online Access: http://revistas.univalle.edu.co/index.php/la_manzana_de_la_discordia/article/view/6729/9746

In this paper, I analyze the poetry of witness written by five Colombian writers between 2000 and 2016 (Anabel Torres, Cristina Valcke Valbuena, Nana Rodríguez, Camila Charry, Andrea Cote). This trend of the poetry has been forgotten by Colombian literary criticism. However, it accounts for the memory of contemporary violence in the country. By using the approach of critique of memory and the affective turn, I analyze the relations between the poetry of witness written by women and the militancy in front of the patriarchal system of the war. I find the communality of poetry in a sensibility that speaks from the place of oppression, not only generic but from the marginalization of the victims, from the dis/appropriation techniques or post-autonomous writings and from the political-affective, ethical and philosophical positions of the women writers. The language of the testimony and the remains of the materiality of the body-word, that deny the representation and recreate the intensities of the woman’s imagination, create two places of enunciation: the denunciation of the oppression made on the survivors and the resistance to turning them into objects of a banal and hegemonic discourse of memory, or the manifestation of women’s experience in war.