Ventos do apocalipse and the relationship with Ecofeminism

Résumé

Thinking about literature gains new connotations when eco-environmental studies come into play which, through an ecomimesis, confers a prosopopeic character to the physical environment and to individuals outsourced by the animalization that man gives them. Thus, starting from the relationship between literature and the natural environment, this work aims to reflect on the place that women occupy in the narrative through an ecofeminist perspective from the apocalyptic reality of traumas and violence that befall the figure of the novel’s protagonist Ventos do apocalipse (1999), by Paulina Chiziane. Thus, through a qualitative, document and bibliographic research, we used Deegan's considerations; Podeschi (2001), Garrad (2006), Kuhnen (2017), Plumwood (1993) and Spivak (1985) to support the discussion and analysis of the narrativecorpus of this article. As a result, we were able to understand how the feminine is associated with the natural environment through the patriarchal ideological formation that subordinates and outsources women in the colonial metaphor that, in a dichotomous, and unequal way, places the masculine and the feminine in opposite poles.