Expressing oneself in poetry at the border of genre and gender. Study basted on ‘Mariées rebelles’ [‘Wild Brides’] by Laura Kasischke (transl. Céline Leroy) and ‘Le Dernier livre des enfants’, by Ariane Dreyfus

Abstract

Gender studies and their consideration in poetic usage have not spared the boundaries of literary genres or their properties. In the field of contemporary poetry, the presuppositions around the complex figure of the «lyrical subject» are questioned, in order to invent more critical uses of enunciative postures what writing processes does this notion of «lyrical subject» cover? What bodies and what representations does this particular point of view bring out? We will use Laura Kasischke’s collection translated into French, Mariées rebelles [Wild Brides, 1992], published in 2017 and Le Dernier livre des enfants written by Ariane Dreyfus (2016) to propose some hypotheses concerning the expressive manifestations of a subject marked by gender and genre. The presence and joint study of the French translation will allow us to identify the issues more precisely.