Ana Paula Maia and the literature of female authorship: women in their (un)due place

Abstract

The general aim of this article is to discuss, based on the novels Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos (2009), O trabalho sujo dos outros (2009), Carvão animal (2011), De gados e homens (2013) and Assim na terra como embaixo da terra (2017), by Ana Paula Maia, the way her literary writing reverberates in the literary field of feminine authorship, and promotes ideological and aesthetic subversions in the orbit of contemporary literary production. The theoretical contribution is constituted by Giorgio Agambem’s concepts of biopolitics, Slavoj Žižek’s triad of Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, Carol Adams’ absent referent.

Keywords:
Ana Paula Maia; women’s writings; aesthetic-ideological subversions