El silencio femenino
- Bengoechea Bartolomé, Mercedes
ISSN: 1131-9674
Año de publicación: 1992
Número: 5
Páginas: 48-56
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos
Resumen
This paper is concerned with those "circumstances, inner or outer, which opose women's needs of creation", as Tillie Olsen put it. Focusing on poems by Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich, it analyses three factors which may account for female silence in literature: the burden of literary criticism, women writers' identification with dominant sexist values, and the need to alter a man-made language