IDENTITY AND CULTURE IN LITERARY ANTHOLOGIE WRITTEN BY WOMEN: FROM THE AHES TO THE RAINBOW

Abstract

this approach presents the I tome of witches: from womb to life (2022), a poetic collection, written by women in Portuguese by authors residing in different spaces. It is a clipping that presents poems that, before contained in the body, now dye the white pages of the paper, and collectively, make rainbows out of ashes. Productions exhibited in an anthology that exudes multiple odors and flavors and that point to words such as: militancy, purification, rebirth and gain strength in female sisterhood, in sorority. To carry out this route, we adopted as a methodology the complete exposition of the poems, both to introduce the writers and to infect the reader, so that together, they can celebrate the magic potion coming from the hands of the witches, who continued to stir their cauldrons in the course of history and, now perhaps, more dangerous than before, because they learned to hold hands, live-dream collectively their pains, their joys, their overcoming and they are presented, in this collection, in the form of poetry. We will highlight the three parts of the collection: the three necessary conditions for freedom: my body, my rules, my sacred temple; of the silences that burn in the fire of injustices and the prodigies of the word; of the poetic flame that burns the divine womb of witches. For the conversation, we invite Gaston Bachelard (2005), Rubem Alves (2004), Octavio Paz (1990; 2012) Terry Eagleton (2019), as well as other authors and poets who walk through the pages of focused poetic production, which expand our backyards, not only in the field of literature, but, above all, in the space of our intimacy, so full of contradictions, asymmetries, anguish and hopelessness. Movements that, when conveying between the external and the internal, deepen the poetic elements presented by the women-poets, calling us to reflect on the intricate relationship between identity and culture, configuring a body-memory in the expressive voice of each poetic self.