The laughter between Rosi Braidotti and A uterus is the size of a fist from Angelica Freitas: notes from a cross reading
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https://doi.org/10.33064/5ais4260Keywords:
Feminisms, Sexual difference, Gender, Literature, Poetry, Humour, Laughter, LaughAbstract
This essay aims to carry out a cross-reading exercise between the book Un útero es del tamaño de un puño by the Brazilian poet Angélica Freitas, and the Italian-Australian philosopher Rosi Braidotti, particularly fragments that appear in her book Feminismo, diferencia sexual y subjetividad nómade; emphasizing the notions of body and subject, but above all, the role that laughter plays according Braidotti’s statements and its use and effects in Freitas' literature.
For this approach, the use of comparative literature is intended as a methodology, seeking common points, convergence or association. More than a literary analysis, this work aims to do second readings of Un útero es del tamaño de un puño, by looking to the processes in which material and symbolic aspects of corporality are constructed or deconstructed in Angélica Freitas' poetry, such as the representation of femininity, class, race or the standard of beauty, to identify possible bridges between the poetic text and the theoretical text. Mainly, it refers to humor and laughter as subversive writing resources for critical thinking and the agency of political subjects, as well as the need for an exercise in self-criticism that includes humor in feminist thought, as emphasized by Rosi Braidotti. It is important to mention that appreciations generated here from the comparison has to do with the reading routes of the author of this essay, so the subjective character, not less rigorous for that, is present.
It is a non-conclusive work, but rather a trigger for dialogue to form, through these bridges, a series of connections that allow us to relate the questions between these different thinkers and their approach through the writing from their own literary genres.
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