A sacralização do corpo, da poesia e do erotismo em Adélia Prado

Abstract

This study develops a reading of five poems by Adélia Prado, that poemas are includedin her Poesia reunida: “Do amor”, “Enredo para um tema”, “Rute no campo”, “A maçã no escuro” and “Gregoriano”. These compositions show that Prado elaborates contradiscursive formulations to promote the harmony between body and soul, erotic and sacred, therefore, its poetic work is investigated in the combination of eroticism, religiosity and the sacredness of the body involved. in the rite of celebration of sacred eroticism. In Adélia Prado, the erotic emerges in a critical combination with the religious, elucidated from the Christian mystique, in a confluent presence of biblical and theological elements. The reconfiguration of traditional views on the female body appears in the author's work through the sacralization of this body. Reconciliation is a revolutionary strategy in Adélia's compositions, because it avoids the violence that stands as the central feature of patriarchal ideology. The theoretical support that guides our readings consists of the works of Octavio Paz (1982, 1994), Georges Bataille (1987), Elizabeth Grosz(2000), Michelle Perrot (2003) and Elódia Xavier (2021). In the course of these analysis, we also resorted to the critical fortune that explored the categories body, eroticismand sacred, such as Angélica Soares (1999), Nelly Novaes Coelho (1993) and Rita de Cássia Olivieri (1994).