Diadorim e o mito da donzela-guerreira: uma leitura de Grande Sertão: veredas

Abstract

This study had as objective to analyze the mythologic archetype of warrior maiden reveled on the Diadorim’s character in Grande Sertão: Veredas, by Guimarães Rosa. Throught the myth of warrior maiden we can watch how occurr the conservation and at the same time, the break of the patriarcal values, and the inversion of roles and how this influences on life and at the perception of the female figure. The work exposes the situation of the protagonist that was inicially imposed for her father to adopt the male settings to protect herself and grow up in a hierarchcal social envirolment of jagunços and then motivated to continue transvestite to revenge her father’s death, in other words, fight in name of her father. She cannot experience the feminility and assume the love who nurture for her fight partner. The reasearch is from bibliografy nature and aims to achieve the purpose with studies of many areas of knowledge, among them, we take Eliade (1972), Tuan (1983), Galvão (1998), Jung (2000), Neitzel (2004), Ribeiro (2011), Almeida (2014) and others. Based on reviews, was seen how the fundaments of myth of the maiden who fight, mainly in name of her father or for her father, go throught generations since of native myths, running through the archetypes, the popular literacture and shows renoved for many works of present, be on cinematic context, be on literature so as Diadorim in Grande Sertão Veredas. The second part is about the Riobaldo’s sertão and some female characters. The last part is fully dedicaded to analyse Diadorim and the aspects who turns her a warrior maiden. At the end of the work was possible to observe that Diadorim, further fight in name of her father, fights for him and try to be the son varão that he desires, at the first place shows that even being woman she can be a warrior among of jagunços and then fight in the name of her father who she try to honor with the revenge for the betrayal and his death.