Knowledge transmission from a feminist epistemological perspective. Contributions from the literary / cultural criticism

Abstract

The concern for a feminist or women’s language has guided the reflections and writing of different thinkers. From our place as academics, we feel the need to elaborate a new language that resembles the critiques and proposals of feminist epistemologies: a new word that accounts for bodies, oppressions and alternative ways of knowing. We can find possibilities for this language in crossing with other discursive genres. It is worth asking, then, what intersections between literary and cultural criticism and theoretical-academic practice are possible, pleasant, attractive. For this, I dig into four essays by María Moreno in search of writing technologies that the author employs to construct her speculation and that are, in turn, linked to the ways of constructing feminist theory. Strategies such as the use of marks of orality; the insertion of the authorial figure in the women’s collective; the use of one’s own experience; the use of irony, humor, and metaphorical language; and the weaving of a feminist genealogy are some possible procedures that help us to imagine a feminist language for knowledge transmission.