World Languages and Cultures<\/a> Speaker Series presents, with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies:<\/p>\nFrom Poetry to Protest: The Circulation of a Poetics of Justice in Mexican Women\u2019s Writing and Activism<\/h2>\n
This talk examines how a language of justice circulates from poetic writing into activist movements and public discourse in Mexico, through an analysis of Susana Ch\u00e1vez Castillo’s Primera Tormenta<\/em> and Armin\u00e9 Arjona’s Ju\u00e1rez, tan lleno de sol y desolado<\/em>. Drawing on Ch\u00e1vez Castillo’s work, initially circulated online prior to her feminicidal murder in 2011, it traces how her poetic discourse of justice\u2014including the phrases “Ni una m\u00e1s” and “Ni una menos,” now central to anti-feminicidal movements\u2014entered public and political spaces. The talk then turns to Arjona’s poetry, dedicated to the dead women of Ju\u00e1rez, whose dissemination through the Movimiento Acci\u00f3n Po\u00e9tica brought her work into the city streets. Together, these cases illuminate how a poetics of justice transcends traditional literary boundaries to become part of the public discourse, positioning Mexico as a generative space in which women’s writing actively shapes the language of resistance.<\/p>\nDr. Diana Aldrete<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College. Her research, pedagogy, and artistic production, interrogates the intersections of contemporary Mexican\/Latin American\/Latinx literary, film and cultural studies, Mexico-U.S. border studies, feminist and queer theory, environmental humanities, and Human Rights studies. She is currently working on her first monographic book project tentatively titled Between Land and Death: Women Writing for Justice in Mexico, which examines how literary production, primarily by contemporary Mexican women writers, have become part of the political dialectic on anti-feminicidal violence as they question notions of justice, and place literature in conversation with activism.<\/p>\nProfessor Aldrete is also an abstract visual artist and writer, who often infuses literary, musical, and cultural references in her visual art and writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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