Latin American Women Poets and Their Strategies for Self-Definition at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Latin America experienced important social transformations in the transition towards modernismo. This helped the emergence of female voices, which at this time began to fight for social rights and a place within spheres of cultural production. It is within this context that women in Latin America began to write professionally. This article addresses the writing of the Uruguayan Delmira Agustini, analysing the social and literary strategies she developed in order to be an active cultural participant within a literary sphere shaped and dominated up to that point by her male counterparts. © Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 2015.