Transtexuality and the Precarious Materials of Dissent (1973): Radicalism in Cecilia Vicuña, Felipe Ehrenberg and the Beau Geste Press (1970–1976). (2nd September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Segre, Erica
• Other Names: Grieco Kyra guestEditor.; Jenkins Katy guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of Latin American research. Volume 40:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 267
• Page End: 284
• Publication Date: 2020-09-02
• Subjects: 1973‐anti‐Pinochet -- Beau Geste Press -- Cecilia Vicuña Felipe Ehrenberg -- radical bookworks -- transtextuality; Latin America -- Periodicals; 980.03805; 980
• DOI: 10.1111/blar.13142
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0261-3050

Abstract

Abstract : The article analyses the material strategies of dissent through two transtextual bookworks, Cecilia Vicuña's Sabor a mi (Vicuña, 1973) and Felipe Ehrenberg's Pussywillow (1973) produced at the Beau Geste Press radical collective. Contesting Pinochet's coup in Chile, they resorted to visibly undisciplined responses to 'the New Disorder now in power'. Experimenting with embodied poetics based on the page as a site of resistance, on textual construction predicated on relational impetus, they exploited litter and impoverished materials. Heterodox aesthetics at the BGP personified equivocal gender imagery. Word objects and body contours transmogrified to bring to the surface the interpenetrated textures of perception, identity and language.