"Tudo que escrevo tem corpo" perspectivas interseccionais na lírica de Débora Gil Pantaleão

Abstract

In our studies on female-authored poetry in Paraíba, we have investigated the recurrence of the presence of a female body that records emerging political issues of contemporary times, with emphasis on those demanded by feminist thought. This inscription presents a considerable recurrence in the poetry of the writer from João Pessoa, Débora Gil Pantaleão. For this reason, we chose Pantaleão's poetry to understand the ways in which the poetic body, marked by dissent and a constant target of violence, (re)acts as an instrument of struggle to destabilize death policies. Furthermore, in this struggle, it evokes and summons other bodies close to its own through political solidarity. In this sense, our objective is to analyze the presence of this body, observing, based on marks of intersectionality and precariousness, how it combats the oppressions suffered, as well as which structural and stylistic resources are used in its elaboration. Regarding the corpus, we selected the poems “eu vou abandonar o exagero” (2018), “o beijo” (2023), “mas você é branca, amor” (2023), “VI” (2023), and “tudo que escrevo tem raça” (2024). Regarding the theoretical basis, we based ourselves on the studies of Audre Lorde (2020), Patrícia Hill Collins (2021), Kimberlé Crenshaw (2002), Judith Butler (2019), bell hooks (2018), as well as authors who focus on Brazilian poetry by female authors, such as Júlia Klien (2018) and Danielle Magalhães (2020). In terms of results, we found that the recording of the physical body and its intersections promotes a poetic space to reverse silencing, denounce violence, and develop modes of resistance.