“Ressalte o desvalorizado”: A figura do animal não humano na poesia de Eavan Boland

Autores

  • Maureen O’Connor University College Cork

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197751

Palavras-chave:

Escrita de mulheres irlandesas, Poesia irlandesa, Ecofeminismo, Estudo sobre animais

Resumo

Boland argumentou que “poetas de boa índole são sempre subversivos” e, embora não se identifique como poeta da natureza, ela compara sua práxis a deles: “seu léxico é o esquecido e o desconsiderado.  . . . Eles ressaltam o desvalorizado e estabelecem uma relação metafórica profunda entre ela e algumas partes desvalorizadas da percepção”. O envolvimento de Boland com o “natural” raramente fornece foco para análises de sua obra, que estão voltadas a preocupações frequentemente identificadas como sendo da própria poeta: sua relação com a história, especialmente a irlandesa, e seu papel de mulher irlandesa escrevendo de dentro e contra uma tradição dominada por homens. Contudo, ambas as questões de identificação insegura e ambivalente, bem como de localização, estão implicitamente conectadas às construções culturais do “natural”. Este ensaio traça a negociação de Boland com um legado de silêncio das mulheres irlandesas ao considerar o surgimento do animal não humano em sua poesia, que evolui da metáfora tradicional para uma figura que desafia expectativas e normas representativas, transvalorando, assim, o poder de significação do silêncio e questionando o próprio estatuto da linguagem, particularmente como construção exclusivamente humana.

Biografia do Autor

  • Maureen O’Connor, University College Cork

    Maureen O’Connor  is college lecturer of the School of English and Digital Humanities at the University College Cork, Ireland. She received her BA in English and Creative Writing in Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, and her MA and PhD degrees in English from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She has taught in a number of undergraduate programmes in southern California, including Loyola Marymount University, Scripps College, and Pitzer College. She held an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Moore Institute in the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she has also lectured in the English department, the Women’s Studies MA programme as well as in the MA programmes in the Centre for Irish Studies and Culture and Colonialism. She has published widely in Irish Studies, especially women’s writing, and is the author of The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women’s Writing (2010) and of Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction (2021) among many others.

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2021-05-23

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O’Connor, M. (2021). “Ressalte o desvalorizado”: A figura do animal não humano na poesia de Eavan Boland. ABEI Journal, 23(2), 35-49. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197751