Desocupada no tempo, não fixada: a criação além da clausura na produção de Maura Lopes Cançado

Abstract

This dissertation explores the work of writer Maura Lopes Cançado, present in her two books Hospício é deus: diário I and O sofredor do ver, with the aim of reflecting on how her writing is constructed through the traces of confinement and in the artistic gestures that dismantle suffocating spaces. Based on the images produced by the author and the context of their creation — the asylum territory —, I seek to understand the contradictions that permeate her literary endeavor and place her work on the threshold between containment and freedom. This study also proposes reflections on the desire to write within a space of death, such as the asylum, grounded in the concept of desiring-machines by Deleuze and Guattari (2010), and investigates this process as an artistic gesture linked to women's writing, drawing from the considerations of Cixous (2022) and Lorde (2020). Finally, it analyzes three recurring images in Lopes Cançado’s work — the stone, the gaze, and the fall —, understood here as poetic strategies for dismantling the logic and structures of the cloister, supported by Pelbart’s (1993) notion of a world without a model. In this direction, the discussions developed here do not aim to find a single interpretation of the author's work, but are grounded in the deviation proposed by her own writing, as suggested by Felman’s (1978) idea of the literary thing.