From the destruction of the female body to the creation of posterity: estética da reação and the antagonism to violence discursive

Abstract

This work integrates a series of theoretical compositions related to the development of the concept called estética da reação. For this purpose, it is based on the sense that contemporary female authorship emerges as an antagonist to violence in the representation instituted by the hegemonic power. By breaking the snare of silence (Cixous, 1976), the artistic production of women establishes the possibility of building a posteriority, previously associated only with the male culture (Gilbert, Gubar, 1979; Zolin, 2009). Through the elaboration of images of the female body that finally assumes its place as a prominent body, a desiring body. This proposition contradicts images of subalternization disseminated over the centuries (Almeida, 2012), supplanting and consequently destroying the oppressed images of these bodies. Thus, two songs by the writer and composer Letrux (2017a, 2017b) are used: the single song Hysteria and Que estrago, from the album Letrux em noite de climão, so that it is possible to proceed to the identification of the persistent reactive traits in contemporary female authorship established from the delineation of the female bodies.