¡Partamos, musa mía! - Auctorial poetry by Spanish and Hispano-American poets from the Enlightenment to Modernismo

• Applicant: Dr. Ines Kremer
• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 558771547

Whether monja, madre or musa - gender-specific behavioural norms have determined women's literary writing for centuries. Ilustración is regarded as a cultural-historical upheaval in the gender order, which is why it forms the starting point of the project, which examines the relationship between authorship, lyrical ego and gender in Spanish and Hispano-American poetry from a comparative historical perspective. This approach makes it possible to work out both continuities and specific developments in the individual epochs and cultural areas. It examines the extent to which outstanding but little-recognised female poets such as María Gertrudis Hore (Spain, 1742-1801), Concepción de Estevarena (Spain, 1854-1876), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Cuba, 1814-Spain 1873) and Delmira Agustini (Uruguay, 1886-1914) reflect their position as authors and how this position relates to the intratextual lyrical ego. This is done on the basis of the innovative concept of ‘authorial poetry’, which makes it possible to distinguish the textual level from extra-literary conditions of life and publication. In this way, the current debate on authorship, autobiography and autofiction, which primarily relates to prose texts, is made fruitful for analysing the relationship between author and lyrical self, and a contribution is made to the fundamental revision of the canon. Analysing discourses on both femininity and masculinity will show the extent to which stereotypical gender constructs are questioned. In addition to literary texts, the project will focus on paratexts and personal testimonies that provide information about the gender-specific conditions of literary creators and how they perceive themselves and others, and will prepare the digital edition of Estevarena's complete works. In contrast to existing works, the project thus brings together approaches from the sociology of literature and text philology as well as femininity and masculinity research.

• DFG Programme: WBP Position