A Casa dos Afetos: mulheres rurais e a performance/escrita de si como forma de resistência

Abstract

The present thesis is a path to/in the countryside, it is an irregular trail through the woods, which cuts through the stream, visits the flour house and expands into the yard, it’s a mapped image of the lives of two Antônias - Almeida and Barbosa - Isaura, Valdete, Rosa, Terezinha, Carmelita, Josefa and Marilza. The narratives of life in the House of Affection are put into words and poetry, that wattle and daub house and its characters have their stories dissected, turned over, converted into a text-map. Some questions guided the research: how to share the narratives and uncover how the nine characters, rural women from the Pati and Rio Branco communities in Alagoinhas and Araçás in Bahia, carried out the performance/writing of the oneself in an attempt to resist? How was the construction of their subjectivities in the context in which they lived? The possible answer was: to map the movements of intinerances/errancies of the nine women of the Schramm-Barbosa family, from a perspective aimed at understanding the micro-revolutions they undertook through the construction of the oneself. The specific objectives outlined to understand the micro-stories in their complexities were: to analyze the articulations and breaks between the signs of culture, memory, and the subjectivities constructed by the women in the research; to expose the traps of the pedagogy of domestication in the context of the researched rural communities; to investigate the life performances and aesthetic-political-cultural actions of the characters in the research; to map the strength and movement of the rural women in the present investigation. The methodological paths were aligned point by point with the reflective line of the needle, which connected the authors in the stitching: Nascimento (2018), Moreira (2016), Perrot (1989) and (2019), Rago (2013), Oyěwùmí (2021), Gonzalez (2018), Muraro (2002), Ribeiro (2019) and (2021), Bento (2022), Evaristo (2017), Mercês (2022), Adichie (2021) and (2019), Federici (2017), Franco (2001), hooks (2022), Kilomba (2019), Rios (2011), Rolnik (2016), with the narratives told by the twenty-five people interviewed. Regarding the methodological aspects, the following were carried out: bibliographic and iconographic mapping, interviews, audio and video recording, search for old photographs, drawing production and QR code creation with the aim of capturing, through the cartographic-performative method, the traces, signs, discourses, aesthetic-political-cultural actions of the characters/women of the countryside. As a result of the research, the notion of the countryside as a discursive/theoretical field is presented to deconstruct the concept of the countryside as a non-place and/or in-between place; the most important point is the construction of the perception of the nine women/characters as tireless fighters who undertook micro-revolutions in their daily lives, metamorphosing life and trying not to fall before patriarchy, poverty, hunger, and violence; they constituted themselves every day, whether in manual labor, at the market, at home, in bed or praying, thus breaking down the image of the rural woman as a complex of eternal passivity. The investigation is relevant, therefore, to make visible the real stories of rural women, whether Barbosa or Schramm, reaching the academic space with the purpose of dismantling phallocentric signs in the social imaginary and spreading the power, the desire for becoming that is still alive in the House of Affection. The thesis is a wattle and daub house...