O amor romântico como manisfesto da cultura patriarcal na obra Dores do Amor Romântico de Fernanda Young

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation is to understand, by analyzing poems, how intimate relationships were codified from patriarchalism. Starting from Silva (2010) suggestions about literature's representation of female subjects, we analyze five poems of the book Dores do Amor Romântico (2005), by the contemporanean writer Fernanda Young, trying to understand the paradoxical relation that the female self-lyrical constructs with the man within the logic of belonging to the Father’s Order. These five poems were analyzed with the theorizations about the construction of romantic love’s myth, the identification and feminine resistance to the old values that are still valid in postmodern society, focusing in the possible tensions between the ideals of romanticized love disseminated by the novels and the new social configurations resulting from the resizing of the asymmetrical gender’s relationship. It is understood that these poems are suggesting, through the poetic voice, an aggression to the traditional phallocentric Order through a parody language. However, this lyrical self finds limits in the transgression of patriarchal structures, since it regards one of the ―villains‖ of the end of the century woman, the physical-psychological dependence of man, and when it escapes the norm is faced with solitude. Thus, even with the emancipation provided by the feminist political struggle, the women materialized in the poetic’s selflyrical of Fernanda Young assume ambivalent behavior in the affective-sexual relations because the masculinist principles conflict with the subversion to the Order.