Poeta and poeto: dissidences in the children’s poetry of Gloria Fuertes.

Abstract

This article focuses on the poetry of Gloria Fuertes, a Spanish poet with an extensive work typically divided into children's poetry and poetry for adults. It was the former that brought Fuertes considerable media success, while the latter was often pushed to the shadows. However, in recent years, critics have begun to study her poetry for adults to highlight its importance in the 20th Century literary history. Our article has a dual objective: on one hand, we aim to show to what extent Gloria Fuertes' poetry, which can be considered as a dissident poet, has a subversive character regarding gender roles and sexual diversity. To this end, several poems will be analyzed revealing the strong critique of the establishment under Franco’s Regime that the poet carried out in all her work. On the other hand, focusing on gender topics will allow us to understand all her poetry forms as a continuum, a whole in which the division between children's poetry and poetry for adults dissolves, as both share a subversive character.