Books
Confesiones eróticas y otros hechizos
Genre
poetry
Last Edition
Ediciones La Luz (CUBA, 2016)
ISBN
978-959-255-128-2
Although not as well known or studied as her prose, Daína Chaviano's poetry is indispensable for better understanding her literary work as a whole. This facet of her writing -- irreverent, bold, ironic, and passionate -- allows access to her conception of the poetic, the sensual, and the sensorial. Eroticism is the central theme of this collection of poetry in which the Cuban author reveals her more intimate, personal side.
"Chaviano represents a new vision of male/female relationships (.... In her poetry, female sexuality is not places exclusively at the service of a male, no longer is being for another the whole of women's sexual construction. Her writing calls for a change in the norms of sexuality and for a critical reexamination of female psychosexual and sociosexual experience. What distinguishes the contemporary Latin American feminist writing of authors such as Chaviano is an Eros dynamic fed by self-knowledge and female affirmation, and the will to attain woman's total potential." (Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women, Margarite Fernández Olmos y Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, White Pine Press 1993 .)
"Chaviano represents a new vision of male/female relationships (.... In her poetry, female sexuality is not places exclusively at the service of a male, no longer is being for another the whole of women's sexual construction. Her writing calls for a change in the norms of sexuality and for a critical reexamination of female psychosexual and sociosexual experience. What distinguishes the contemporary Latin American feminist writing of authors such as Chaviano is an Eros dynamic fed by self-knowledge and female affirmation, and the will to attain woman's total potential." (Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women, Margarite Fernández Olmos y Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, White Pine Press 1993 .)
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