Las migas de Mirta Rosenberg. Rastros lesbianos en su poética de los ochenta

Abstract

: The 1980s was a turning point for Argentine poetry. Marked by the public reappearance of words, ideas, and voices that had been silenced during the military dictatorship, there was also –as Alicia Genovese pointed out in La doble voz (1998)– the publication of numerous collections of poems written and signed by women authors. In this article I maintain that another remarkable phenomenon occurred within the same time frame and context, though for decades apparently unnoticed by poetry crit-ics: more frequently and explicitly there appeared traces of lesbian sensibilities, bodies, affectivities and desires that began to modulate a heterogeneous yet multiple voice. I propose reading poetry collec- tions Pasajes and highlighting lesbian nuances which run sublty PJS y MDM respectivamente indicar refiere