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BUSTAMANTE-BERMUDEZ, Gerardo. Illness, Pain, and Writing in two collections of poems by mexican female authors: Margarita Paz Paredes y Rocío González. LiminaR [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.2, pp.198-209.  Epub 10-Dez-2020. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v18i2.767.

The theme of cancer is explored in this article, drawing from the authorial experience of two Mexican poets, Margarita Paz Paredes in Memorias de Hospital (1980) and Rocío González in Neurología 211 (2013). Themes of the body, memory, illness, and medical-surgical treatment are grounded in writings of the self that illustrate the limits of the life/death duality. Writing is the way the poets confront their situation as vulnerable patients who recount their pain with poetry as their only medium. Writing, pain, and illness are an indispensable triad that underpins a testimony of their relationship with a feared illness in a time-space in which both poets confront adverse realities through their final books of poetry.

Palavras-chave : body; illness; cancer; poetry; women poets; memory.