Ecofeminist PersPective and poetry of the southern cone (Liliana Lukin, Liliana Ancalao and Emilia Pequeño Roessler)

Abstract

After proposing a definition of ecofeminism that highlights its places of tension (materialism/spiritualism, centrality of care/rejection of feminine essentialization, French theory/practice of social struggles in Latin America), a critical reading of three collections of poems written by living authors, from Argentina and Chile, belonging to different generations and poetic currents. Each of the selected poems - Theater of Operations (2007) by Liliana Lukin, Rokiñ. Provisiones para el viaje (2020), by Liliana Ancalao and La chacra de las fresias (2022) by Emilia Pequeno Roessler - questions the ways in which the relationship between women, men and nature is represented and, above all, the fundamentals of such representation in terms of language, power and cultural traditions. These discourses and practices not only call into question an imaginary weighed down by sexist and/or ecocidal representations, but also propose new ways of developing an alternative imaginary. The critical reading of the poetry collections investigates the way in which each poetics connects with the main aspects of ecofeminism defined at the beginning of the article.