Keiser University - Institutional RepositoryPoemas de un joven que no ha amado nunca: sexo sí, amor noDavidTraumannauthorComo ya han notado varios críticos literarios, el tema del amor en la poesía de Joaquín Pasos es algo elusivo. Aparentemente, Pasos jamás tuvo una relación seria con una mujer de la que se sentía enamorado. Como resultado, sus poemas de amor son sobre mujeres inexistentes, meras figuraciones de su imaginación. En estos poemas, hay unos en que las trata con cariño; se imagina cómo sería la mujer que idealiza; las describe desde una óptica humorística, no exenta de erotismo; o critica su inherente inferioridad por ser mujer. Pero es en dos escritos en prosa que afloran su misoginia y una actitud de implacable hostilidad. En una ponencia deplora que las mujeres de su tiempo ya no sean prisioneras en su casa, literalmente enjauladas por verjas; en otra se opone a que reciban educación universitaria y opinen en materia de política. Lo que llama la atención es que su exigencia de que las mujeres de su clase social fuesen modelos de virtud, católicas, vírgenes hasta el matrimonio y luego madres dedicadas a criar hijos/as y servir a sus maridos, era ya en su tiempo un anacronismo, dado que la posición de algunas mujeres intelectuales nicaragüenses estaba al día con sus contrapartes extranjeras durante la primera ola feminista mundial. Además, contradice radicalmente su estilo de vida personal, en el que es sabido que tenía relaciones sexuales con mujeres pobres, a menudo indígenas o mestizas que trabajaban en las cantinas que frecuentaba, lo cual trae a colación asuntos de etnicidad, clase, poder y género. --------------------- As several literary critics have already pointed out, the theme of love in Joaquín Pasos's poetry is somewhat elusive. It seems Pasos never had a serious relationship with a woman he was in love with. Consequently, his love poems deal with nonexistent women, mere figments of his imagination. In some of these poems, he treats them with affection; he imagines what the woman he idealizes would be like; he describes them from a humorous, albeit erotic, perspective; or he criticizes their inherent inferiority simply for being women. But it is in two prose texts that his misogyny and an attitude of implacable hostility surface. In one, he laments that the women of his time are no longer prisoners in their homes, literally caged behind bars; in another, he opposes their receiving a university education and expressing their opinions on political matters. What is striking is that her demand that women of her social class be models of virtue—Catholic, virgins until marriage, and then mothers dedicated to raising their children and serving their husbands—was already an anachronism in her time, given that the stance of some Nicaraguan intellectuals was in line with that of their foreign counterparts during the first wave of global feminism. Furthermore, it radically contradicts her personal lifestyle, in which she is known to have had sexual relations with poor women, often Indigenous or mestizo, who worked in the bars she frequented, raising questions of ethnicity, class, power, and gender.Literature of Spanish America. Nicaragua [PQ7510]2026Keiser University Latin American CampusMonograph

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