The intertextual project of Também guardamos pedras aqui: the historical-poetic-feminist resumption of the Trojan War

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of Também guardamos pedras aqui by Luiza Romão in which the Brazilian slammer takes up the Iliad by Homer. When contemplating the Trojan War the poems trace a path through themes that problematize the representation of women, western literature, poetry, feminism, power and politics, proposing a decolonial imaginary that subverts the apprehension of colonization/war as equated to a process of civilization. The work, winner of the Jabuti Prize 2022 in the Poetry Category, brings the image of stones as instruments of self-defense and struggle in an intertextual game in which words, poetry, can represent stones that women – from the past and of the present – they focus on defense, resistance and (re) existence in the different contexts of oppression that continue to configure multiple wars faced on a daily basis by this minority group.