The corporal word: relations between body and poetry in Soledad Farina's La vocal de la tierra (1999).

• Grant number: 24/01756-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Laura Janina Hosiasson
• Grantee: Maurício da Silva Reis
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes a reading of Soledad Fariña's trilogy La vocal de la tierra (1999), a compilation of the poet's first publications: El primer libro (1985), Albricia (1988) and En amarillo oscuro (1994). The analytical-interpretative approach seeks to demonstrate how the relationships established between body and language build the structure of a poetic word desired by the Chilean poet's lyrical subject. Within this framework, we consider the body far from a fixed and homogeneous dimension - as pointed out by Richard (2002) and Pabón (2002) on the relationship between the body and power - but that questions the limits of the physical structure itself and questions the history and culture that constitutes it, recovering pre-Columbian cultures, working on the marks of the military dictatorship and treating contact with nature as elementary. In addition, Fariña's questioning is not only about the physical body, but extends to the body of the poem, in other words, how all its organs try to open themselves up to other types of meaning of the word, since the creation of the poetic word from the body is only possible through language.