Absolutely black: Body and everyday life in the poems of Shirley Campbell Barr and Eulalia Bernard

Abstract

This article analyzes the poetic work of two Afro-Costa Rican women: Eulalia Bernard and Shirley Campbell Barr. Emphasis is placed in the inscriptions of the everydayness of black bodies, which has been signified and dominated by androcentric standards and which these poets take up, from the aesthetic perspective, to highlight their crisis and their fissures, politicizing the intimate space and endowing it with new meanings, where body and daily life are rewritten under a new episteme: feminist, transnational and intersectional.