María Luisa Milanés: an approach to nine of her poems (1912-1919) thematic overview of Cuban female poetry

Abstract

Female poetry has been characterized by a vitality capable of shaking the most insensitive spirits due to the themes, strength, and courage of many voices that have transcended time. Figures such as María Luisa Milanés, know as Liana de Lux, constitutes an example of a Bayamese poet, who, perhaps bypassing it, invites us to reflect on the family. María Luisa Milanés: An approach to nine of her poems (1912-1919) constitutes an approach and recognition of a tradition of certain topics within national and local feminine poetry, as well as the insertion of her lyrics, one of the most representative of early 20th century. The identification of the predominant themes will reveal the identity and systematic elements and with this procedure, attention will be focused on demonstrating how the lyric of Liana de Lux is inserted naturally in the literary processes where the woman is shown as an essential entity. The main results of the study are the definition of themes related to gender, of which the writer was one of the promoters in that period in Cuban literature; to mother-daughter, father-daughter, and married family relationships; and death, specifically suicide.