Abstract
This paper seeks to understand the specificity of the discourse about the motherhood elaborated in the essays and the poetry by Adrienne Rich at the time of her feminist affirmation. Effectively, in establishing a continuity with Walt Whitman's tradition of rebel and democratic diction, Rich, to this day rarely read in Brazil, uses in her discourse the enumeration and the narrative mode to represent courageously the pain and the ambivalence related to the experience of motherhood. The violence of writing as well as the use of oneiric language that face the orphic patriarchal tradition linked to phonocentrism make the poetry by Rich conform to the theory of deconstruction in its subversive aspects.
Keywords:
Motherhood; Discourse; Deconstruction; Adrienne Rich; Walt Whitman