Corpos e sexualidades transgressoras: uma análise semiótica das obras Poemas Malditos, Gozosos e Devotos e do Desejo, de Hilda Hilst

Abstract

Hilda Hilst, throughout her works, showed a poetic sensitivity and understanding about complex issues of human existence that were results of deep experiences. Although there are many themes to be observed, this dissertation is restricted to analyse the eroticism from the conceptions of Georges Bataille. There is, in Hilda's writing, a fundamental factor that seems to be the key to her entire production: transgressing seems to be the factor of order, in Other words, transgressing a literary system, the text and the eroticism. In this way, this dissertation entitled “Transgressive Bodies and Sexualities: A Semiotic Analysis of the Works Poemas Malditos, Gozosos e Devotos and Do Desejo, by Hilda Hilst”, had the goal of analyzing eroticism in the works Poemas Malditos, Gozosos e Devotos and Do Desejo, by Hilda Hilst”, asa way of a review about the denial of female sexual desire. To give an answer to this goal, the Narrative Semiotic Theory of Discourse, by Algirdas Julien Greimas, was used, through the begining way in which eroticism was observed at the fundamental level, where semantic oppositions were defined; at the narrative level, where the subjects who transform conditions appear and that perform the actions expressed at the fundamental level; and at the level of discourse, where time, space, subject, object and receiver are being analyzed, and it's the moment when the destination handler uses strategies of manipulation to make the receiver agree about his speech been true. Therefore, the main theorists that were studied to address the topic about eroticism, sexuality and literature were Georges Bataille (1987) Michel Foucault (1999, 1984) and Octavio Paz (1994); to discuss about the Semiotic Theory, we mainly included Algirdas Julien Greimas (1976), José Luiz Fiorin (1999, 2007) and Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros (2001, 2005).