Male Signature, Female Aesthetic: The Gender Politics of Experimental Writing

Entre la extrañeza y las equivalencias naturales: traducir la poesía experimental de Lorine Niedecker

“…Consequently, it is not unreasonable to assume that they will easily decode the grammatical, visual and phonic clues that the translator has identified in the source text, as well as the ways she has chosen to render them in Spanish by means of her own language tools and resources. From the point of view of gender, translating female avant-garde poetry helps overcome the myth, already more diminished than a few decades ago, about women poets' alleged preference for poetry of a biographical tone or, more importantly, for the fusion between biography and identity, as if experimental poetic language left personal experience out; an issue strongly contested, among other critics, by Rae and Marianne DeKoven (1989).…”