Mujer de palabras. Las contradicciones identitarias en la visión poética de Rosario Castellanos

Abstract

Mexican poetry of the 20th century offers us the possibility to analize different stages in which the image of the woman is being formed according to various cultural aspects. Passion, desire, loneliness, social rejection, predetermined roles, complaint, love, recovery and exploration of the body, self contemplation, conscience of an ending, integration with nature, search of ancestors, return to the origins and the sacred, are all part of that interiorization process. This article deals with Rosario Castellanos and her way to reveal this image in all her works, leaving us at the crossroad in which taking part of consciousness is imminent, and making us reflect on women’s role in our world, a role which seems forced, imposed, inconsistent and contradictory.