A representação da sogra na obra de Leandro Gomes de Barros

Abstract

This study investigates the mother-in-law representation in the String Literature, focusing the case study of the work of Leandro Gomes de Barros, a poet from Pombal, a city situated in the State of Paraíba (northeast of Brazil). The referred poet is an interlocutor of the cultural representations and manifestations of the popular imaginary which depreciate the mother-in-law figure. The mother-in-law theme in the work of the poet from Pombal, if analyzed according to Bakhtin’s theory of polyphonic discourse, emphasizes the carnivalization of such emblematic stereotype. The methodology, presented in the analysis chapter, focuses the most prominent aspects of the research, i.e. the stigmas created by the poet of the mother-in-law figure, as well as the level of rejection of such figure. To do so, it will be analyzed the grotesque discourse of the poems and the covers of the strings, which can be a sign of the prejudice against the mother-in-law figure