The importance of nature to the construction of a feminine identity in the poem "Que transpõe o halo", by Marcele Aires: an analysis by the prospect of ecofeminismo

Abstract

Nature representations vary according to different speeches and artistic forms. Throughout Literature history, they have been predominantly oriented by diverse interests, such as scientific, commercial, political, as well as expressive. From one pole to other, its representation has served to disclose its wealth (as happened to travel literature in colonial period), to consolidate a national and/or regional identity (what happens to romanticism and modernism literatures, as well as to regionalism), to confirm theses on biological determinism on human behavior (what happens to realism/naturalism literature), or to express subjectivity of the characters themselves or of lyrical subjects (what happens especially to romantic-symbolist literature), being led, in each case, by different world visions. Recently, accompanying the emergence of an ecological awareness that is opposed to ideologies that consider it just as a natural resource to be explored, nature has been appreciated per si, what does not exclude its relation to subjectivity which represents it and to which is important. To discuss this issue according to the critic ecofeminism point of view, we analyze the poems of the book Que transpõe o halo in order to show the importance of nature in constructing a feminine identity in the mentioned book.