The Grammar of the Body: Pain, Pleasure and Motherhood in Sanguínea

Abstract

In the novel Sanguínea (2020), Gabriela Ponce, achieves “writing with the body”. She does it through the admission of fluids, especially menstrual blood, as a way to refine meaning and writing. The sexual and erotic also play an important role in finding a particular language that creates a grammar of the body. Motherhood is another element that allows us to think of corporeality as a form of language and at the same time as a configuration of space. The body is a space in itself in this novel, where the narration starts from a flow of consciousness of the protagonist.