Fronteras poéticas en la obra de Mina Loy / Poetic Borderlands in the Work of Mina Loy
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Este artículo analiza la obra de Mina Loy, poeta británico-americana modernista, desde una perspectiva feminista postmoderna respecto al tema de las identidades de género y la hibridez cultural. El poema secuenciado «Songs to Joannes» constituye una parodia de la lírica amorosa y la desestabilización del mito del amor romántico a través de un sujeto poético que juega ambiguamente con la masculinidad y la feminidad. «Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose» es un poema autobiográfico que refleja el conflicto étnico y cultural de la autora, y que propone la autoinvención de la identidad en un espacio multifacético e intersticial dentro de la diferencia. Ésta sería la definición de «frontera», un concepto que vertebra el análisis presente para mostrar la idiosincrasia de la obra de Loy, una joya olvidada y recientemente recuperada de la poesía modernista anglosajona.
Palabras clave: Mina Loy, poesía modernista, identidades de género, hibridez cultural, amor romántico, etnicidad, el concepto de «frontera», crítica feminista postmoderna.
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This essay analyzes the work of Mina Loy, a British-American modernist poet, from a postmodern feminist perspective regarding the issues of gender identity and cultural hybridity. The sequential poem «Songs to Joannes» constitutes a parody of traditional love lyric and the troubling of the myth of romantic love through the representation of a poetic subject that plays indistinctively with the roles of masculinity and femininity. «Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose» is an autobiographical poem that reflects the author’s ethnic and cultural conflicts, suggesting the reinvention of identity in the multifaceted and interstitial space of difference. This is the definition of the concept of the «borderland», which guides the present study of Loy’s work in order to show the idiosyncratic quality of this long-forgotten but recently recovered modernist poet.
Key words: Mina Loy, modernist poetry, gender identities, cultural hybridity, romantic love, ethnicity, the concept of the «borderland», postmodern feminist criticism.
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