Electronic Literature 2022: the Mexicana Feminists of BrokenEnglish.lol

Authors

Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Guest Lecture, University of Central Florida

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

5-6-2022

Subjects

Feminist poetry, Electronic literature, Creative writing

Abstract

Discussion of four poems from Mexican literary online magazine Broken English LOL (https://brokenenglish.lol/). Discussion of eliterature’s historic preference for “aesthetic difficulty,” and the racial construction of that preference. How EDI discovery work done by the five editors of the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4, a collection built during Covid, challenged and reframed “difficulty.” Why these four poems by Millennial and GenZ Mexicana feminists calls into question the field’s traditional preference for “difficulty.”

Description

Featured Poetry

1) Für Ciello by Camila GB

2) Lengua Parasita by Mónica Nepote

3) When I Realized I Wasn't White by Maria Cristina Hall

4) [three rose emojis] by Silvia Castlán

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37571

Citation Details

Berens, Kathi Inman, "Electronic Literature 2022: the Mexicana Feminists of BrokenEnglish.lol" (2022). English Faculty Publications and Presentations. 118.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37571