O rabisco inconsciente da Vagabunda: Colette entremundos corpóreos e subjetivos.

Abstract

This thesis was written based on observations made through the analysis of Gabrielle Colette's The Vagabond (1910), regarding synesthetic language and the exposure to medieval writings by women, which generated inquiries concerning mystic women’s and modern/contemporary women writers’ process of literary creation. The aim of this study is to investigate the aforementioned body language and its prompting of reflection upon the matter of the corporeal and subjective world of these women, in particular, Colette's. The research was carried out through the bibliographical revision of works that address: the life and literary production of French writer - Colette, by Julia Kristeva (2004) - of female medieval writers: Hildegard von Bingen, Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan and of female poets of al-Andalus, being grounded on what Danielle Régnier-Bohler (1993) discussed regarding the subject; feminist critique and corporeal theory - Joan Scott (1999), Virginia Woolf (2014), Elizabeth Grosz (1994). This resulted in the finding of similarities between the literary writings of Colette and that of the women writers of the Middle Ages, concerning synesthetic language that’s entwined with bodily experience.