Reweaving the place of nature: two contemporary women poets
This article examines two women poets, the Brazilian Arriete Vilela and the Caribbean poet living in Britain, Grace Nichols, with the aim of showing the way they deal differently with notions of space and place in nature, approaching these notions through ecocriticism, feminism and other interdiscip...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Alicante
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Feminismo/s |
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| Online Access: | https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2013-n22-reweaving-the-place-of-nature-two-contemporary-women-poets |
| Summary: | This article examines two women poets, the Brazilian Arriete Vilela and the Caribbean poet living in Britain, Grace Nichols, with the aim of showing the way they deal differently with notions of space and place in nature, approaching these notions through ecocriticism, feminism and other interdisciplinary readings. Their poems present an understanding of nature that involves an interconnection between human and more-than-human in a relationship that may be seen as harmonious and problematic. Videla’s use of “nature imagery” provides both resitances and potentialities to be revealed in her Brazilian poetry. Grace Nichols begins from a discontinuity in her view of Caribbean landscape and culture where a touristic colonizing industry frames even gendered bodies. These two poets explore the dialogue between external nature of the female human being, in a body of work through which such dialogues and conflicts can be poetically resisted and celebrated. |
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| ISSN: | 1696-8166 1989-9998 |