Corpo/Palavra/Sangue: O levante de "Sangria"

Abstract

Published in 2017, the poetic work entitled Sangria, by the Brazilian poet Luiza Romão, surprises by its sui generis format aligned with an original and daring theme that stages in the word-body-image the phases of the female menstrual cycle orchestrated with the cycles of Brazilian history, from colonization to the parliamentary coup that led to the impeachment of then President Dilma Roussef in 2016. In the considerations on the set of 28 poems I highlight some issues of form, language and thematic treatment, with emphasis on gender and race issues regarding the female body and its domestication in the country’s continuous history of patriarchal violence. I argue that in the projection of the history of Brazilianness as sterile because it is based on the rape of the virgin land / female body, the plundering of its wealth and the coup against democracy, Sangria explores silenced borders in official history, using the power of words and images in a performance act that evokes its affiliation to the tradition of slam poetry. In this sense, the work inscribes an artistic / political activism on the part of the lyrical self that, through denunciation and insurrection, projects the desire for social transformation.