A ESCRITA FEMININA E A CONSTRUÇÃO DO SER MULHER NO UNIVERSO POÉTICO DE MARIA HELENA CHEIN

THE FEMININE WRITING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WOMAN BEING IN THE POETIC UNIVERSE OF MARIA HELENA CHEIN

Abstract

The aim of this work is to present and analyze the scope of the construction of the woman being present in the poetic works of Maria Helena Chein. For the development of the present study, the works Amor solto na terra (2004) and Pão ázimo sob a figueira (2019) were chosen. The fictional universe of the author presents numerous women as protagonists, conscious of their relations, actions and conditions. This way, the author doesn’t present the feminine being in a romanticized perspective. Chein’s writing explores what is more human and intimate in women as subjects, mainly when it comes to the theme of love. She depicts and explores interpersonal relationships and subjectivities of women, and in such a way, registers the feminine being intensely, reflectively, pondering her own condition. At the same time, when showing this poetic, fictional world filled with women, the study also seeks to bring forth considerations concerning the act of writing itself, particularly the feminine writing, after all it is about a woman that inserts the feminine subject in her own poetry. Regarding theoretical approaches, in order to reflect on the feminine writing and the representation of the woman being in Chein’s poems, we used the studies and considerations of scholars such as Nelly Novaes Coelho, Níncia Teixeira, Dulcineia Monteiro, Simone de Beauvoir, among others.