THE POSTHUMAN POETRY AND THE NEW BODY IMAGINARY. ROMANIAN AND MOLDAVIAN VOICES
THE POSTHUMAN POETRY AND THE NEW BODY IMAGINARY. ROMANIAN AND MOLDAVIAN VOICES

Summary/Abstract: Most of the Romanian researchers challenged, from time to time, to participate in a debate on the literary posthumanism, either prefer to avoid making a long list of posthuman poets or do not even mention the poetry as one of its expressions. Moreover, if the existence of posthuman poetry is called into question, the problem of feminine bodily representation in such a literary manifestation is almost non-existent. The few (mostly young) scholars who accept the existence of literary posthumanism and are interested in its representative figures/names prefer the analysis of those elements of cyber-technological influence whose frequency would illustrate the partial substitution of the body or, at the limit, the total conversion of the human (body) into a new tech mechanism. On the contrary, I think that a correct, therefore careful posthumanist reading (cf. HERBRECHTER & CALLUS, 2008) of the volumes or groups of poems published in the last decade by post-millenary poetesses supports the idea that, even in the so-called technophile lyric, the role of the feminine body representations still remains a particularly important one. Taking into account some remarkable volumes, written by young poetesses from Romania and The Republic of Moldova, such as val chimic (umilirea animalelor/ humiliation of animals), Sânziana Şipoș (somnul din conducte/ the sleep in the pipeline), Monica Stoica (fetele visează electric/ girls dream electrically), Cătălina Bălan (Cutii/ Boxes) and Adriana Rusu (Albastru neon), I’ll explore the new body imaginary in the posthuman poetry.

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