Disuelta, Sostenida, Creada: Cristina Peri Rossi’s Evohé as Queer Feminism

This essay analyzes the poems of Cristina Peri Rossi’s Evohé (1971) with canonical queer and feminist theories to gauge whether the collection may complicate the political and theoretical rift between queers and feminists. By way of close readings of the poems and comparisons with contemporaneous feminist and subsequent queer theories, I argue that Evohé evokes many prevailing queer and feminist concerns, and the collection can thus be conceptualized as queer and feminist. Moreover, in comparing the feminist dimension and the queer dimension of Evohé , I contend that the collection speaks to queer feminism—and especially that which Lynne Huffer theorizes—because of its exceptional illustration of relational dissolution: an eroticism beyond the moral individual, but with a maintained sense of relationality.