A poesia de testemunho em Leila Míccolis

Abstract

Between the 1960s and 1970s Brazil went through what can be considered one of the worst moments in its History with the military dictatorship. Through these 21 years of dictatorship the country and its people went through a huge transformation not only in politics but also in the social behavior. Witnesses of this moment, the writers were responsible for registering the portrait of a society that suffered with censorship and repression, but at the same time saw the country prosper like no other moment in History. Among these writers was Leila Míccolis, born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1947, a poet that still produces a lot. With irony and an acid humor, Leila Míccolis criticizes the society exposing its most obscure and hypocrite side, aiming especially at the values established centuries ago, particularly those that limit the freedom of women. Her production, however, goes beyond a feminine criticism, dealing with many different themes, lightly, but at the same time in a dense way. Her poems can be erotic, even pornographic at times, about children, feminist, but all of them criticize the daily life and defend the minority, leaving in all of the her mark, which is a resistance to the status quo. Through the reading of her work, especially the collection of poems Desfamiliares and through the analysis of texts related to the Testimony and the poetry produced during the 1970s, we intend to show that her poetry fits perfectly in the concepts of the testimony poetry having in mind that the author puts herself in the place of the victims of injustice and witnesses the misery and the pains pf the daily life.