A celebração do erotismo sagrado na poesia de Adélia Prado

Abstract

This research proposes the analysis and critical-literary discussion of a selection of texts extracted from eight books of poetry by Adélia Prado: Bagagem (1976), O Coração Trigado (1978), Terra de Santa Cruz (1981), O pelicano (1987) ), The knife in the chest (1988), Oracles of May (1999), The duration of the day (2010) and Miserere (2014), contained in the book Poesia reunida (2015). The starting point is the proposition of Georges Bataille's theory in O erotismo (1987) which elucidates that "all eroticism is sacred", in line with Adelian poetic work, his poetic work is investigated in the combination of eroticism, religiosity, of the sacredness of the body in the rite of celebration of sacred eroticism. Undoubtedly, the research was not an arbitrary choice, since the presentification of God and the representation of God in the erotic perspective are very evident in the texts of Adélia Prado. Another relevant factor that led to the choice of the erotic as the basis for the analysis is the emancipatory process of women, in which the dimension of sexuality and eroticity has occupied an important space in reflections against the repressive culture prescribed by patriarchy. By analyzing Adélia Prado's poetic production from this perspective, the dissertation aligns the interpretation of the poems to Bataillian theory, to defend the hypothesis that, in these comments and analyses, there are perceptible connections between the poems and her theory. As a methodology, the research involved the analytical studies of the poems, in the proposal of analysis and comments, with the exposition of intertextual and intratextuais connections. The dialogue of support with the author's critical fortune was also sought, using various sources, but referring especially to the works of Rita de Cássia Olivieri (1994), Vera Queiroz (1994) and Angélica Soares (1992, 1999, 2008; 2011), in addition to referring to studies and authors of literary history and theory, as well as related fields of knowledge, as the analysis of the verses requested specific deepening.