The woman in the country universe of Irene Rezende's poetics
Irene Severina Rezende; Women in the country universe; Contemporary Brazilian poetry.
In this master's thesis titled, the woman in the sertanejo universe of Irene Severina Rezende's poetry aims to investigate, in some of the author's poems, the female representation in the Brazilian socio-cultural context, which is patriarchal in character, especially in the context of farms and ranches in the countryside of Brazil. These representations seek, through the voice of the self-lyrical, to narrate memories that can be understood in the light of the post-colonial literary movement, which opened up subaltern and marginalized people to a place of speech/representation in the literary canon. The aim of this research is to analyze twelve of the author's poems with a focus on the experiences of women in the country universe who move in different dimensions of everyday life, bringing symbolic representations of the human condition and social and cultural life. To develop the theme, it’s necessary to resort to the author's literary production, in the following works: “Páginas Rendadas Colhidas ao Amanhecer (2012), Prolongamento (2ª edição 2016), No chão do Araguaia, li meu mundo (2016), Sertão é poesia bruta (2021), Varandas de Quimeras (2023)”. From the inferences read in the voices of the self-lyrical, it’s possible to see the correlation between the human condition of patriarchy, female subordination, women's search for emancipation and the social organization of work. In order to analyze the texts, it was considered, among the main theorists, Zolin (2009) and his contributions to understanding postcolonialist theory and criticism; Andrea Nye (1995), with her studies on Feminist Theory; Candido (1996) and the assumptions for analyzing the poem; Walker (2021) and his studies on the historicity of women's writing, especially the women's poetry in Mato Grosso; Halbwachs (1968), who emphasizes the memory, because no memory can coexist in isolation from a social group, and Le Goff (1924), who broadens the discussion on history and memory. The unfolding of this study leads to symbolic discussions regarding women, such as denouncing their inferiorization and silencing, remnants of a patriarchal society.