Diosas, dioses, furias cantar y contar en la poesía de claribel alegría

Zusammenfassung

One of the procedures of Claribel Alegría’s poetry is the instrumentalization of myths, especially the Greco-Latin classics, to represent her own concerns. Although the incorporation of this theme has been carried out almost from the beginning, it is increased in some of his latest poetic installments, Saudade, Soltando amarras and culminates in Mitos y delitos, a book that consolidates this incorporation. Rubén Darío’s work and his friendship with Robert Graves and his book Los mitos griegos were important stimuli. Since “Carta a un desterrado” in 1993, he uses mythological female figures with the clear intention of serving his poetic guidelines. In his work the myth is transformed and poses an active feminine line, which breaks the exclusivity of the action linked to the man as happens in mythical figures such as Orpheus. In Mitos y delitos the presence of mythological figures is more intense and most of the poems are centered, in front of the male characters, on figures of strong or transgressive women, which she reinterprets in the light of the concerns that encouraged her, the injustices, violence, the subordination of women and the underprivileged.