Abjection feminist poetics in literature

Abstract

Violence is always linked to physical, material and emotional fear; but what happens when writers express the emancipatory potential of horror? This article shows how from the Latin American and Caribbean literature, poetics of feminist emancipation provides insights into another way of understanding the conquest of the dignity of women and subjective conversions outside heteronormativity. Logical and hygiene principles of modernity through the analysis of literary texts and from the use of "abjection" theorized by the writer and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva are questioned.