Cicatrices del tiempo: Desgarros de la temporalidad y figuras de la memoria en la poesía escrita por mujeres privadas de su libertad

Abstract

While the prison silences those who inhabit it, a series of dissident voices rise up as a “silent heartbeat” (Preciado, 2018) that finds, in the poetic language, a tool of resistance against a present that perforates their subjectivity. Based on the analysis of poems written by imprisoned women in Ezeiza’s jail during the last decade, I propose to study the figure of memory —“scar of time” (Cabrera, [2013] 2016) not overlapped with moral condemnation (Parchuc, 2018)— as a timeless rewriting of the female body and as a way of resisting against a chronometric violence that tames bodies and locks them into a suffocating routine.