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Krisma Mancía (1980, El Salvador) is one of the most promising members of the postwar generation of young Salvadoran poets. Like Jacinta Escudos, Claudia Hernández and Vanessa Núñez Handal in prose, Krisma Mancía breaks free of the taboos still found within Salvadoran society that have kept women’s issues out of literary discourse longer than in other Latin American countries, and brings them to the forefront in her poetry. In this study, I focus on analyzing the poems “Exquisita ama de casa” and “El juego de la demencia,” both from the collection La era del llanto (2004) and showing how difficult it is for the female subjects to break free from patriarchal order and create an independent, strong female identity. Krisma Mancía delves deeply into the contradictions inherent in Salvadoran society to give us a harrowing look at two repressive expectations still placed upon Salvadoran women today: that of the traditional housewife and of the obedient and lady-like daughter. Through grotesque, often surrealistic images, and multiple voices within the poems, Mancía shows us how these societal expectations result in women becoming monstrous, becoming chimeras that can only find freedom in a descent into madness and rage.
克里斯玛Mancía(1980,萨尔瓦多)是萨尔瓦多战后一代年轻诗人中最有前途的成员之一。与杰辛塔·埃斯库多斯、克劳迪娅Hernández和凡妮莎·Núñez·汉达尔的散文一样,克里斯玛Mancía打破了萨尔瓦多社会中仍然存在的禁忌,这些禁忌使妇女问题比其他拉丁美洲国家更长久地远离文学话语,并将其带到她的诗歌中。在本研究中,我着重分析了诗集《la era del llanto》(2004)中的诗歌《Exquisita ama de casa》和《El juego de la demencia》,并展示了女性主体从父权秩序中挣脱出来,创造一个独立的、强烈的女性身份是多么困难。克里斯玛Mancía深入研究了萨尔瓦多社会固有的矛盾,让我们痛苦地看到今天萨尔瓦多妇女仍然受到的两种压抑的期望:传统的家庭主妇和顺从的和淑女般的女儿。通过怪诞的,通常是超现实主义的图像,以及诗歌中的多种声音,Mancía向我们展示了这些社会期望如何导致女性变得可怕,成为只能在疯狂和愤怒中找到自由的嵌合体。