Ernestina de Champourcin: la exploración de los sentidos de la poesía

Abstract

This article explores the role of human senses and perception in the poetry of Ernestina de Champourcin, offering a reading of her work that reveals perception and the body as key elements for the poetic voice’s self-affirmation and inscription in the literary universe. The analysis of the senses in Champourcin’s poetry and the way they emerge in the text establishes a fruitful dialogue with some of the greatest feminist texts as well as with recent Anglophone studies on the sociology of the body. Making use of this theoretical framework, the article rejects traditional gynocentric studies of Champourcin’s poetry and offers a new reading of the way in which the poetic voice, using her senses and (feminine) embodiment, appropriates the text and builds a poetic universe based on the knowledge they provide. The article privileges an understanding of a distinct sensitivity in the poetry written by the women of the Generation of ’27 and argues for more concrete and tangible readings, departing from the symbolic and panoramic traditional studies of this literary group.