Las palabras archivadas: malabarismos en la escritura de Ana Lydia Vega.

Abstract

Ana Lydia Vega has produced dialogic writing that displays fictional debates among the many sectors (archives) that coexist in the post-industrial society in Puerto Rico. This paper proposes that her treatment of diverse themes, such as feminism, Caribbean cultural and racial politics, as well as history and everyday life, from a deployment of these diverse discursive registers mentioned above, can be considered a strategy to insert herself in the field of the lettered culture. It is a strategy to, among other things, open up a space for her writing in a field so constrained with rules, as is the lettered culture, which can be defined as a specific use of the masculine word. The result of her recourse to minor genres and the deployment of strategies such as significant silences (Ludmer, Castillo), is that she subjectivizes the female speaker as long as she gives a view of society that goes beyond binary oppositions.