(Dis)figurations of the feminine contemporary poetry

Abstract

Free from an institutional paradigm, in this article, I seek to identify formal traits in Brazilian female poetry, such as abrupt associations, an enigmatic way of capturing reality, the absence of links between the different terms used. I am then interested in the work of the French poet Liliane Giraudon, author of Polifonia Pantesileia, in Portuguese, a poem in five parts that illustrates the problem of the (dis)figurations of the feminine in modern and contemporary poetry. The final part is devoted to the formal analysis of the poem: literary genre, quotations, graphic aspect, structure, visual aspect, prosody, combined in a skillful montage. The strategies used converge with those of Brazilian poets, one can identify “feminine” writing.