Violence and patriarchy as a literary faces of a pedagogy of cruelty in Latin America

• Autor(a) principal: Freire Schiffler, Michele
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista odisséia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/odisseia/article/view/32407
• topic: Gender violence; femicide; Patriarchy; Latin American Women's Literature; Violência de gênero; Feminicídio; Patriarcado; Decolonialidades; Literatura feminina latino-americana

This paper aims to discuss, based on decolonial criticism, the marks of patriarchal violence bequeathed by the colonial process as a constant in the works of Latin American writers. To this end, we intend to undertake the analysis of the representation of feminicide in three literary works by contemporary authors: Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo; Black Romance with Argentines, by Luisa Valenzuela; and Never Fire Never, by Diamela Eltit. A critical reading of the works demonstrates that the violence exerted on the female body since the conquest process has decisively affected the marks of a pedagogy of cruelty (Segato, 2018) that reverberates in the reproduction of gender violence in the socio-cultural context of Latin America. The work has theoretical support from decolonial political feminisms (Vergès, 2020) and indicates that Latin American women's literature acts as a possible form of counter-pedagogy of cruelty, in the form of denunciation or protest.