Anne Sexton: una aproximación rancieriana al concepto de poesía política para la didáctica de la literatura en educación media

Abstract

This research revolves around the relationship between politics and poetry, taking politics a base for readers to approach lyrical analysis. The starting point is the premise that poetic creation is not reduced to the objective of externalizing a feeling. At the same time, the same starting point consists in the objective of establishing a relationship between aesthetics, political constructions and literature. This relationship, in the work of Anne Sexton, gives way to the appreciation of the feminine gender as a problematic concept. Her poems are important to understand a social truth: the nonconformity of women in face of a concept not forged by herself. This reality will be linked to the Rancierian concept of the politics of literature, since the writing and reading of his poems allows, within the work itself, the redistribution of what the philosopher calls the distribution of the sensible. For this reason, Anne Sexton's poetic work was selected to confirm the political character of every literary construction. Therefore, the elaboration of a critical edition on Anne Sexton's poetry, from the perspective of her work as a political scenario for the teaching of literature, becomes a conceptual basis that allows the inclusion of the poet in the didactic processes of poetry. To consolidate this critical edition, the concept of politics was established according to the aesthetic and artistic theories of Jacques Rancière, as well as that of poetry and didactics of poetry, and the space given to the political analysis of literature from the Colombian technical curricular norm was investigated (as mentioned within this the narrative genre). Subsequently, the categories that guided the analysis of Sexton's work were constructed: the body, sexual reproduction and the personal. With the finalized edition, it was concluded that it was possible to delineate the poetics of the author around the categories constructed and that the poet's work can be interpreted as a political scenario. It is hoped that this product can be implemented with high school students, so that schools can understand that literature offers a multiplicity of meanings that can transform readers' lives and experiences.