The literary voice of Margarita Valencia, Zeta Tijuana
The literary voice of Margarita Valencia
Upon his return, the philosopher presented Tijuana one second collection of poems entitled "The exact opposite of Text", under the seal Centaurea Nigra Ediciones.
By Enrique Mendoza Hernández
"I think of poems disparan. / I think of guns," writes the poet in "the exact reverse of the text," which was released on Friday 16 August at the Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT). On their return
provisional "capital of the television," the philosopher based in Madrid unveiled its second collection of poems. He came to shoot his poetry in Tijuana:
"The language that runs through my veins / is playing Russian roulette / with an automatic pistol."
The edition consists of six sections ("as the number of bullets that fit into a gun, they relocate to the reader to various 'zones' of the book"), ZETA author confesses: "Language is a Bullet" "Identity," "She, Him, and that (the then)," "All We keep a dog chained and Hungry," "Howl" and can not miss the reference to Tijuana, "Borderlines / Borderlands."
"Reading this book is to witness how to load a gun and get that burden, April Castro hit upon in the presentation.
finely polished poetry, Margarita Valencia Triana (Tijuana, 1980) does not hesitate when you pull the trigger. Does not turn to the words. A few are enough to throw up their images and metaphors: "I wallow in the bed of language."
"The experience of Margarita Valencia Triana by this meeting reveals intense poems. Talk about sharp thinking. Talk about smart thinking, "read Amaranta Caballero in the presentation of poems. His spoken word, while the poet was staying with a black tape on the mouth.
"Woman oblicua. / doubled over misma. / Sobregirada. / Sobreactuada. / Sustituida. / drama. / How to walk and appointed with so many lacerations language? "read Valencia in the performance. About
philosophical poetry Triana Valencia, Amaranta adds: "What is then the meeting of this experience titled as 'the exact opposite of the Text'? Assumes a sharp look that will recognize. Assumes that there is an appearance conscious self-observation. It assumes that there are endless questions now, after reading the periods of a lifetime sequenced pages. Supposed to reach the conscious emergence of a challenge. A real challenge that is involved in each book. The determination to investigate. Food for thought. For when all This involved, it is thus: to reverse. " Tijuana
not escaped the poets. Triana Valencia is no exception:
"La Tia Juana, Tiguana, Tiuana, Teguana, Tiwana, Tijuan, Ticuan, Tj, Tijuana, you can call it as you want because Tijuana, like every word, it means nothing, and means' together the sea '. "
Philosopher, poet, essayist and performative, Valencia Triana also reflects a feminist in her poetic prose:
"He has flashes great / but is stupid. Even so, the pronoun runs the world.
"Being openly feminist seems to be an act of self-disparagement, suicide. However for Sayaka, being a feminist is a consistency of gender, an unequivocal sign of common sense. An obligation. Thus the exact reverse of the text is also the result of his inquiry about the new feminism and the ways to live them (with, for and through creation), April Castro crumbles.
The feminist poet-Sayaka
Margarita Valencia Triana is a graduate of Bachelor of Philosophy from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. He has published in Alforja, Tierra Adentro, Drill, text, line, page of Poetry, Critical Speed \u200b\u200band Other Shore. "Thursday Faust" (2004) was his first book. Maroon
writer mentioned among his favorite philosopher William of Ockham, for his nominalism, he says, Baruch Spinoza, Beatriz Preciado, Donna Haraway, Jean Baudrillad, Gilles Deuleuze, Monique Wittig, Teresa De Lauretis, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Rossi Braidotti, JL Austin, Chela Sandoval, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Fatima Mernissi, and others.
As for poets, the author reveals to be reading by Diane di Prima, Eleanor Kandel, April Castro, Ulalume González, Rosario Castellanos, Allen Ginsberg, Michelle Tea, Cristina Peri Rossi, Amaranta Caballero, Charles Bukowski, Cristina Rivera, Li Po, Catullus, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, Peru Sainz Gertrude Stein, Pizarnik, Gloria Anzaldúa, Chantal Millard.
Like Jorge Ortega (poet Mexicali), Triana went to Iberian lands. The author of "Chess Dust" (Tse-Tse, Buenos Aires, 2003) has done a PhD in English Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhile Valencia Triana is currently carrying out his PhD in Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Criticism in Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The author talked with ZETA.
- Are you a feminist? What is Margarita Valencia to be a feminist?
"Yes I am a feminist. For me being a feminist is to be aware of my gender, do not take as a given issue beforehand, but as a complex issue that involves much thought and a lot of strength to achieve consistency. For me being a feminist is to demand respect and opportunities for females, while the hegemonic positions is to question posed to him, being critical of the position you are looking biologiscista detain and subjecting women to a series of 'duties' of servility and play just by being born with certain genitalia.
"Women do not we reduce our genitals, or our ability to reproduce the species, we are individuals with a greater choice comprehensive actions, thoughts and possibilities. Being a feminist is not to accept the fact that you impose a sacrificial target, but to choose their own way of acting and living. And above all, being a feminist has nothing to do with the mistaken idea that feminists hate men, it is not, in any way.
In fact, this argument is a total of defamation and disinformation with which feminism has always had to deal with. It is also a very effective argument that today's women shy away from the fact pronounced as feminists (although in their practices and their ideas of feminism is present). The danger of this silence and this non-decision, this terrible fear of word F (Emin), is that through them continue to legitimize all kinds of abuse against women, arguing that feminism is a discourse of the 70, has been overcome. However, now more than ever feminism is necessary. "
- Over the years, how has it changed your perception about feminism? Or you keep receiving the same as when you started to know the subject?
"My perception of feminism has changed over time, and that feminism is outdated and anachronistic theory but a theory and practice that have evolved in different streams and contexts. Today you can not talk of Feminism (capitalized) but of different feminisms.
Therefore, the perception is on a constant evolution theory also involves a perception in the making. My first approaches to feminism I had them at 16 years, at that time constantly read existentialist philosophers and one of the most important representatives of this current and Simone De Beauvoir's feminism.
Simone's first book that came to me was 'The Second Sex', which examines the role of women in society. The sentence of the book that finally led me to feminism was 'not born a woman, but becomes one', which means many things, but especially the idea of \u200b\u200bwomen is a cultural product that has been constructed by society.
After Simone, I have researched all this time about feminism, and now my position and my literary production is closer to the queer feminism, whose representatives are theoretical and Teresa De Lauretis, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, among others " .
- "Feminism must be understood as political theory, wrote on occasion. How do you explain feminism as such?
"Feminism as a political theory is primarily, and in its most important policy position that seeks to clear the Sex category and where it is understood that all personal is political action because it is done to change the course of events and the future history. Feminism in the version of make-up policy is to let the facts, stop doing (only) to aesthetics and ethics. "
- You are a member of interdisciplinary feminist Line, writing and creation. Tell us something about it ...
"Yes, indeed I am a member and co-founder of the interdisciplinary. The line is an interdisciplinary project formed in 2002 by feminist women who live on the border between Tijuana (Mexico) and San Diego, California (USA), who through writing, theory, publishing, art, action and performance are a critical exploration of sex / gender system, sexuality and dominant discourses in the various branches of knowledge.
"The members of the interdisciplinary are: April Castro, Jenny Donovan, Lorena Mancilla, Kara Lynch and Margarita Valencia. Today's Line is working on a project entitled Fear is Effective, which consists of interventions, screenings and readings in public spaces. This project seeks to resize the potential of triggering a dialogue writing and exploring its ramifications or subtexts through a phrase ("Fear is Effective") to serve as a trigger for reflection of fear in the spheres of private (intimate) and public. "
- What are relationship between philosophy and poetry? Or, what is it for you to be a philosopher and poet?
"The relationship between philosophy and poetry is undeniable and goes back to the beginning of thought, but above all is set in the use of language. Both share
the use of the word (especially written) to get their content. Do not think there is a definite and sharp separation between the two disciplines, I think the methods they use are different, but ultimately both are designed to remove some, to be open to other cognitive and sensory pathways. For me to philosophy and poetry are not separate processes, the only thing different is the format, since the choice of words to write, both poetry and philosophy, involves reflection, discernment, much love for writing and patience to search all possible turns of language and choice of words. "
- Why Centaurea Nigra Ediciones chose to publish your work and not another publisher?
"Publish Centaurea Nigra because his publishing project seemed very bold and proactive.
editorial also because it demonstrates a real interest in other ways to get the word to people and I fully agree with this idea. Centaurea think your books as 'pieces' that are only complete when presented, recited in a performative. And, in fact, my main purpose in writing is to explore and open various channels to bring my work to readers, for that reason, my readings are regularly reading-performance. "
- What is your opinion on the editorial Centaurea Nigra Ediciones, giving "space to the voices and writings on feminism today?
"I think this editorial, independent, feminist, emerges at a critical time, as I believe that there is real and palpable need to open this type of space to disseminate and display the various explorations of these speeches and practices. "
- How do you perceive the poetic activity in Tijuana from Madrid?
"I'm from Tijuana and now living in Madrid, but always return to Tijuana then my perspective on the poetic activity in the city is a dual perspective, ie a kind of round trip, because in principle I can speak with knowledge of the facts because I took (and still participating) poetic activity the city and also participate in Madrid poetic activity. I believe that the poetic activity in the city is very diverse and that makes it, in my view, very rich and interesting. The only thing I would like to highlight because I think is important is that the poetic activity (and artistic activity in general) of the city (any city) must be self-critical and to avoid by all means, self-indulgence the cultural mafia and chauvinism. "
- What are you writing now?
"I'm working with a couple of projects, one on trial and another on poetry-object (borings sentences)."
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