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Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2011) 27 (1): 97–142.
Published: 01 February 2011
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This article studies the relationship between gender and poetry writing as it was understood by Mexican poets and critics of the late nineteenth-century. From 1867 on they were witness to a renaissance in Mexican literary and intellectual life, which included a significant increase in writing and publishing by women. In this period, influential men of letters encouraged their peers to produce an explicitly masculine verse, one connected to formal politics and Mexican patriotism. However, both male and female poets also sought inspiration from a different Muse: that of female domesticity, and the seclusion, sentimentality and emotion they associated with it. This ideal of domesticity created constraints for Mexican women who wished to write, constraints which they both accepted and challenged in verse and in prose. Este artículo estudia cómo los poetas y críticos mexicanos decimonónicos entendieron la relación entre género y la escritura de poesía. De 1867 en adelante fueron testigos de un renacimiento en la vida intelectual y literaria de México, el cual incluyó un crecimiento importante en la escritura y obras publicadas por mujeres. Paralelamente, en esa época, hombres letrados influyentes alentaron a sus coetáneos a producir una poesía explícitamente masculina, vinculada a la política formal y al patriotismo mexicano. Sin embargo, los poetas mexicanos, hombres y mujeres, también buscaron inspiración en una Musa distinta: la de la domesticidad femenina, así como el retiro, el sentimentalismo, y la emoción asociados con ella. Este ideal de la domesticidad creó restricciones para las mujeres mexicanas que pretendían escribir, restricciones que tanto aceptaron como desafiaron en su poesía y prosa.