RECONFIGURĂRI IDENTITARE ÎN POEZIA FEMINISTĂ ROMÂNEASCĂ
REBUILDING IDENTITY IN ROMANIAN FEMINIST POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The study attempts to provide an ideological andanalytical account of the feminist poetry,that vaguely emerged in Romanian literature in the 1990s and developed after 2000. By challenging the poems written by Gabriela Feceoru, I point out the indebtment of this literary movement to the ideological imaginaries established in the public space of the 2000s. I also explore the poetical consequences of the post-2000 climate by emphasizing that (in spite of the thematic shortsight)the feminist poetry uses the tools given by a rich and sophisticated imagination. A close reading approach highlights the dynamic reconfigurations of the aesthetic horizons in Gabriela Feceoru’s poems. The Romanian poetess is ready to follow new paths, in a continuous refurbishment of images and functions that convert their original marks in order to create a new identity and to put up a refreshed definition for intimacy. Starting from the distinction of trauma memories(that have been melted in the poetic core), the paper focuses on the mechanism that gathers distorsion and consecration in the same root. There are various scales of markedness that may account for stylistic intuitions in relation to metaphors. I shall prove that metaphoric collocations are achieved on different grounds, including the fictional subjects that live/ act in the world as a show. It is the relevant difference of conceiving identity and intimacy that causes another sort of trauma. Regarding intimacy, the over-stimulated imagery leads to variable amounts of ignoring (or completely denying) another subject. The keen rift between dreaming of total intimity and anchoring in the physical intimacy cannot be undone by transgressions, but it can be fixed by poetry. By means of multi-storey images, alternated tenses, intermitente confessions, and fantasy, Gabriela Feceoru enforces the poetics of (in)tangible, framed around her feminist view.

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