EU PREFERIA TER PERDIDO UM OLHO: THE REPRESENTATION OF RAPE IN THE CHRONICLE BY PALOMA FRANCA AMORIM (2017)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the chronicle written by Paloma Franca Amorim (2017), entitled Eu preferia ter perdido um olho, primarily published in the newspaper O Liberal, in the state of Pará. The author offers a sensitive linguistic fabric when dealing with one of the violences against a woman and thematizes rape. She uses the chronicle’s resources to represent the social and historical problem and transport the discourse to the dimension that permeates literature and journalism. The study is based on the point of view of Nádia Battella Gotlib (1998), about literature written by women in Brazil, intertwined with the reports collected by Sohaila Abdulali (2019), who confronts the rape culture and culminates with Monique Wittig’s conceptions (2019) about what it means to be a woman in a sexist society.