Mujer y revolución: dinámica de una síntesis en la poesía de Yolanda Blanco

Abstract

Yolanda Blanco's poetic writing reveals a route of intimate spaces that intensify the experience of the female apprehension of reality, of Nature, and of language through the articulation of a discourse coinciding with the feminist postulates of the difference. Her poems also represent a testimony of the revolutionary fight that culminated in 1979 with the triumph of the Sandinista Front of National Liberation (FSLN) in Nicaragua. Blanco's poetry has defined her insistence of recreating the female subject as a fundamental priority in the vindication of various fronts: her identity, the recognition of the essential role of women in the advancement and attainment of equality in society, and in the unfair subordination to the traditional conception of what it is to be a woman. In her poetic discourse, an increased awareness exists of the importance of respecting and using different linguistic expressions in order to solidify the coexistence of ethnic plurality in Nicaragua. Also, there is a concern for recognizing the genuine elements of Nature by their names through celebrating the rain, the summer, the insects, the flowers and the trees. Woman, language, revolution, and Nature become, therefore, the agglutinative constituents of the personal and national identity that Blanco seeks to formulate.