The City in Catalan Poetry Written by Women (1998-2023). Status of the Issue

Abstract

The relation between poetry and the city has been studied through the privileged point of view of men, held by the patriarchal symbolic order. This article reviews the studies around the concept of urban space and related literature, discovering the inequalities in the right to the city from an interdisciplinary view, revalorising the feminine urban poetry as an engine motor of change towards a more egalitarian and fair society. The current trend of the themes of Catalan women’s poetry in the last 25 years is focused on the study of the poetics of the body, so there is no comprehensive study that explains how public space is represented from the perspective of women. The following pages claim the power of urban feminine poetry as an engine motor of social change and the relevance of the feminine view in the conceptualisation of the 21st century city through poetry and the affective studies.