The Representation of the patriarcal state in O Martelo by Adelaide Ivánova

Abstract

Historically used as a reference to pre-capitalist societies, Patriarchate and its theoretical concepts have gained new outlines in contemporary times. Currently, feminist studies, despite not giving a horizontal answer as to their application (precisely due to their heterogeneity), are based on the primordial idea that social structures continue, even now, to live under the inheritance of these culturally engendered codes within the capitalist system as the maximum expression of its operation, a paradigm, capable of organizing and shaping social thought by the dominant ideology for such a long period where its fundamental content became natural, lost sight of its historical origin and exempted itself from any questions. Based on this premise, and in the light of the cartographies developed by feminist studies, this article aims to dissect the representation of patriarchy and its operating mode present in the book O Martelo, by the Brazilian poet based in Berlin, Adelaide Ivánova, published in Brazil by Edições Garupa in 2017, and before that, in 2015, in Portugal by Douda Correria, and outstanding winner of the Rio Literature Award in 2018.