Ser uma poeta numa redoma de vidro: vida, obra e a escrita de si em Sylvia Plath

Abstract

This work investigates the life trajectory and work of Sylvia Plath, proposing an articulation between lived experience, written production, and the context in which the author was situated during the period from 1950 to 1963. The study explores the tensions present in the social and cultural landscape of the 1950s in the United States, examining this era as marked by gender norms, domesticity, and specific psychiatric practices that pathologized and diagnosed the female experience. In addressing these issues, the research focuses on Sylvia Plath’s modes of subjectivation in relation to her literary and personal writings, in which anthropological theory emerges as a means to analyze existence, experience, and self-writing as a subjectivity in constant transformation. The central axis of this research is psychic illness and suffering, aligned with the author's literary production and biographical trajectory.