Inquietações e desobediências do corpo em Morra, amor, de Ariana Harwicz

Abstract

It is common to recognize in the writings of Latin American feminist authors a place where colonizing ties are broken, a fracture in the domestic environment where women's bodies are controlled, fissures and noises that hide the civilizing wounds of our time. From this post-colonial perspective, aware of the new articulations of capitalism in today's family systems, we propose a political-economic reading of motherhood in Ariana Harwicz's literature. Based on these assumptions, we glimpse in the work Morra, amor (2019) the conditions of existence of women as pregnant women and the reaction of the uncomfortable maternal body that finds itself imprisoned to the child. The main character expresses herself through internal monologues close to the suffocation of motherhood and cultural wounds. The Argentine author proposes a noise based on the reconfiguration of the maternal body of the character in the proposed novel, investigating and subverting the processes that categorize the protagonist based on the social role of mother. It is from this writing, aware of the noises of time itself, that we propose a reading of motherhood starting from a place unusual for it, non-maternity. To recognize these concerns, our theoretical support analyzes the work based on the notions of writing (Harwicz, 2024), gender (Federici, 2019, 2020, 2023; Mohanty, 2017) and motherhood (Badinter, 1987; Iaconelli, 2023; Meruane, 2018).