Casa escrita mundo: a movência dos “True Poems” de Emily Dickinson

Abstract

Literature is able to transform the course of history, besides political and social scenarios. Literary works enable us to reconsider the misogynistic concepts we experience. The general objective of this research is to contribute to the deconstruction of the idea that the reclusion of women as housewives and, thus, deprivation of education is in any way clearly beneficial. The tradition of keeping women at home encourages distress, violence and murder. Specifically, this work intends to reflect on some speculations on Emily Dickinson’s reclusion. The object of this study consists of Emily Dickinson's poetry and its translation to Brazilian Portuguese as instruments of analysis. Since Dickinson's work is extensive, a few poems that are relevant to the topic of each chapter have been selected for the corpus of this research. This project seeks to discuss topics that refer to the stay-at-home condition of Dickinson, her writing as an escape from seclusion, and her expectations of reaching vanguard readers in the future. We propose a feminist analysis of the structure and translation of the selected poems. In order to do so, we seek to rely on the critical considerations of Nísia Floresta, especially those of “Women's Rights and the injustice of Men" (1832) and "Humanitarian Book" (1853), which discuss the role of women in society, from a perspective of 19th century feminism. As far as the structure of the poems is concerned, this study is based on the analyses of Judy Jo Small and Rebecca Swift. Finally, this present work uses the translation choices and considerations made by José Lira and Isa Mara Lando.