The heresy of the animal woman: the animalized female in the Middle Ages and its rewriting in Minha Senhora de Mim by Maria Teresa Horta and o remorso de baltazar serapião by Valter Hugo Mãe

Abstract

The present research aims to trace a relationship between the woman of the Middle Ages and the animalization attributed to her, with the rewriting of the medieval woman in the poetry book Minha Senhora de Mim by Maria Teresa Horta and in the novel o Remorso de Baltazar Serapião by Valter Hugo Mãe. This study aims to understand the use of animalization when related to women, considering that the meaning of the animal changes its tone, as well as the representation of women changes in the works of both authors. We seek to understand the forms of animalization of feminine in the literature and the political implications of this using as theoretical support works as Literatura e Animalidade by Maria Esther Maciel, Formas comuns: animalidade, literatura e biopolítica by Gabriel Giorgi and Calibã e a Bruxa: Mulheres, corpos e acumulação primitiva by Silvia Federici.