O erótico na literatura dissidente de Audre Lorde: o conceito como ação nos poemas de Entre nós mesmas

Raabe Cesar Moreira Bastos; Jéssica Elaine Moreira Sampaio; Gabriela Santos Alves

doi:10.17851/1982-0739.30.3.35-67

Authors

Raabe Cesar Moreira Bastos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1911-0699
Jéssica Elaine Moreira Sampaio Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES) https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7009-9171
Gabriela Santos Alves Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5243-7499

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.30.3.35-67

Keywords:

feminist critical theory, intersectionality, erotic, Audre Lorde, Between Ourselves

Abstract

In “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”, first edition 1978, Audre Lorde proposes the erotic, in the broadest sense of the word, as power and action in the lives and writings of women. Based on this concept, we will analyze seven poems from the book Between Ourselves, published by the author in 1976: “Power”, “School Note”, “Solstice”, “Scar”, “Between Ourselves”, “Out There” and “A Woman/Lament for Lost Children”. We propose an analysis of the construction of the erotic in the author’s works even before she herself conceptualized the term; for this purpose, we theoretically and methodologically articulate ourselves from an intersectional perspective.