“En un hiato de la historia perduran ellas”: Reflections on the Sapphic tradition drawning on "La otra genealogía" (2014) by Sara Torres

Abstract

This paper offers an approximation to  “sapphic genealogies” through the poetry collection La otra genealogía (XV Premio Gloria Fuertes de Poesía Joven) by Asturian writer Sara Torres. The marginalisation of a corpus by lesbian authors from the canon, and therefore, the lack of it in the readership’s imaginary—as a director result of the action of the Literary Apparatus of Canonization (LAC)—leave largely unseen a community of women that, from the origins of Western literature with Sappho of Lesbos, has make use of literary devices to build and, consequently, legitimate an alternate subjectivity inside the phallogocentric system. The aim of this research is to express the aesthetical, as well as socio-political need to acknowledge this distinguishable group of writers. To do so, a comparative methodology will be used in which tradition and contemporaneity will establish a dialogue thanks to the reflective and foundational thematic approaches taken in the article, as well as the literary devices and the reconsideration of the uses of language that this poetry collection with which we work bring us.