Name: EVELYN SANTOS ALMEIDA
Publication date: 04/07/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| DANIELLA BERTOCCHI MOREIRA | Examinador Interno |
| MARCUS VINICIUS XAVIER DE OLIVEIRA | Examinador Externo |
| MICHELE FREIRE SCHIFFLER | Examinador Interno |
| PAULA REGINA SIEGA | Examinador Externo |
| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Presidente |
Summary: This thesis analyzes the critique of and resistance to patriarchal violence in the poetry
of Leila Míccolis from 1965 to 2013. Adopting a feminist and interdisciplinary approach,
it investigates how her poetic work operates as a form of denunciation and
confrontation of gender-based structures of domination, particularly within affective
and familial relationships. The corpus comprises poems from the following books:
Gaveta da Solidão (1965); Impróprio para menores de 18 amores (1976), co-authored
with Franklin Jorge; Respeitável Público (1980); Mercado de escravas (1984), with
Glória Perez; Só se for a dois (1990), with Urhacy Faustino; De 4 (1990), with Glória
Perez, Marçal Aquino, and Ona Gaia; Sangue cenográfico (1965–1997); Literatura
Século XXI (1998); and Desfamiliares (2013). All of these works are included in the
anthology Desfamiliares: poesia completa de Leila Míccolis (1965–2012), published in
2013. These texts are examined through the lens of literary and socio-philosophical
theories by authors such as Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Silvia
Federici, bell hooks, and Rita Segato, proposing a critical reading of poetic discourse
as both representation of and resistance to the symbolic and material forms of
patriarchal violence. From this perspective, the study highlights Míccolis’s contribution
to the construction of Brazilian feminist poetry—still marginalized within canonical
literary criticism. While she is known for her involvement in the marginal poetry
movement of the 1970s and for employing eroticism as a form of protest, her incisive
critique of patriarchy and authoritarian affective dynamics remains underexplored. This
research seeks to fill that gap by foregrounding the political and transgressive
dimensions of her poetry, which disrupts normative models of subjectivity and opens a
space for reflection on the manifold forms of violence that permeate women's everyday
lives. In times of social and political regression, her voice endures as both urgent and
necessary. The thesis concludes that, for its critical force, acerbic humor, and thematic
depth, Leila Míccolis’s oeuvre constitutes a landmark in Brazilian feminist literature and
warrants broader critical recognition.
