FEMININE WRITING AND THE VISION OF TIME FRACTURES IN MARLI WALKER'S GARDEN OF BONES
Feminine writing. Contemporary. Resistance. Marli Walker.
This dissertation proposes an analysis of Jardim de Ossos (2020), by Marli Walker, with the aim of investigating how the author's poetic writing fits within the context of contemporary female literary production in Mato Grosso and how it articulates female experience in light of Giorgio Agamben’s notion of contemporaneity. The hypothesis is that the poet engages in dialogue with other female authors of her time and performs a gesture of resistance against the darkness of the present by evoking images of pain, ancestry and resistance through a fragmentary language marked by the semantic fields of bones, garments and language itself, images that denounce but also reinvent meaning. The introductory chapter discusses the role of women in literature and the historical erasure of female voices, emphasizing the importance of written expression as a form of subjectivation and resistance, based on the studies of Constância Lima Duarte. The second chapter presents the biographical, literary and critical trajectory of Marli Walker, situating her work within the context of contemporary literature from Mato Grosso. The critical analysis developed in the final chapters brings together feminist literary theory, language studies and philosophy of time, with emphasis on the concept of the contemporary as coined by Giorgio Agamben, highlighting how the poet mobilizes symbols such as bone, thread and verb to expose the fractures of the present and stitch, with words, a new armor for the experience of being a woman. The analyses are primarily based on close reading and the method of parallel passages (Compagnon), allowing for the examination of recurring imagery, symbolic connections and dialogue with other contemporary women poets. In the end, the study concludes that Walker’s work performs a poetic gesture of denunciation and reconstruction, placing female writing at the center of contemporary debate and making the word a form of resistance and reexistence.