No escreviver da violência em Conceição Evaristo: a metáfora do agressor nos contos “Aramides Florença”, “Shirley Paixão” e “Lia Gabriel”

Abstract

This research aims to analyze, in three literary short stories by Conceição Evaristo, “Aramides Florença”, “Shirley Paixão”, and “Lia Gabriel”, included in the collection Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres (2016), the representation of the aggressor in domestic violence through metaphor. This approach considers that poetic language has a special reference to the world, just as fiction, through the plot, which reconfigures the terms of the narrative, transforming the reader's reality.To achieve this, the study first examines the philosophical and sociological politics regarding feminism as a movement that disrupts patriarchy and influences the search for a discursive construction that denaturalizes sexist stereotypes. Following this, a theoretical path was taken to understand metaphor as a schematizing resource of productive imagination, as defended by Ricoeur (2002). Subsequently, this study investigates how this feminist movement has been reflected in the literary sphere, where female authorship was historically timid compared to male authorship, and how literary language represented domestic violence phenomena in 20th-century productions — either by reproducing the patriarchal system as a form of denunciation or by challenging it. It also explores how metaphorical language is used today to break this system in works such as those of Conceição Evaristo. The research is

qualitative, with a content analysis approach emphasizing Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic- phenomenological methodology, philosophically interpreting domestic violence as a social and

literary phenomenon. It examines how this issue is represented in the figures of the aggressor and the victim through literary language, focusing on female voices and narrative perspectives on aggression to identify metaphors within this discourse. The theoretical framework includes Ricoeur (1995, 2002, 2005, Saffioti (2015), Biroli (2014), Butler (2003), Mackinnon (1989), Dalcastagnè (2012, 2021), Saul; Diaz-Leon (2018), González (2009), Duarte (2023), and research from public domain sources such as Agência Brasil, G1, Agência Senado, among others. This study traces an overview of the domestic violence phenomenon, which feminism has brought to the forefront and is represented in Conceição Evaristo's literature.