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From her early poems as well as her thesis research of master’s degree in philosophy, Rosario Cas... more From her early poems as well as her thesis research of master’s degree in philosophy, Rosario Castellanos showed a constant: their concern and interest in investigating the conceptual image and status of women in a world largely led by men. In her mature poetry En la tierra de en medio (1972), she points to this same constant. It opens with the poem «Bella dama sin piedad» in a reworking of the ancient topic of death in the form of the feminine; but in the book it is acquiring new interpretations, combined with the attitudes women posing in front of their different circumstances. In this text it is proposed to give clues about how the poet is constructing and resignificing, effectively without mercy, that middle ground that apparently has no boundaries and that inhabits the woman, from the Mexican author’s own theory.
From her early poems as well as her thesis research of master’s degree in philosophy, Rosario Cas... more From her early poems as well as her thesis research of master’s degree in philosophy, Rosario Castellanos showed a constant: their concern and interest in investigating the conceptual image and status of women in a world largely led by men. In her mature poetry En la tierra de en medio (1972), she points to this same constant. It opens with the poem «Bella dama sin piedad» in a reworking of the ancient topic of death in the form of the feminine; but in the book it is acquiring new interpretations, combined with the attitudes women posing in front of their different circumstances. In this text it is proposed to give clues about how the poet is constructing and resignificing, effectively without mercy, that middle ground that apparently has no boundaries and that inhabits the woman, from the Mexican author’s own theory.