Violência e patriarcado como faces literárias de uma pedagogia da crueldade na América Latina

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss, based on decolonial criticism, the marks of patriarchal violence bequeathed by the colonial process as a constant in the works of Latin American writers. To this end, we intend to undertake the analysis of the representation of feminicide in three literary works by contemporary authors: Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo; Black Romance with Argentines, by Luisa Valenzuela; and Never Fire Never, by Diamela Eltit. A critical reading of the works demonstrates that the violence exerted on the female body since the conquest process has decisively affected the marks of a pedagogy of cruelty (Segato, 2018) that reverberates in the reproduction of gender violence in the socio-cultural context of Latin America. The work has theoretical support from decolonial political feminisms (Vergès, 2020) and indicates that Latin American women's literature acts as a possible form of counter-pedagogy of cruelty, in the form of denunciation or protest.

Keywords

• gender violence
• femicide
• patriarchy
• decoloniality
• latin american women's literature.