Voices of violence: the malleering of the hammer

Abstract

The work the hammer, by Adelaide Ivánova from Pernambuco, presents decolonial characteristics that degrade the literal meaning through voices worked in a continuous counterpoint. Demonstrating the violent oppression against the female body, in language, the hammer sends us, with calculated irony and sarcastic reiteration of assertions, to rape, homophobia and violence against women in various areas, with cracks, “hammering”, that break syntagmatic logic, compromising the order. The voice of someone hiding a hammer under the pillow sends the reader into full perplexity, with animalizations, dehumanizing, denouncing content, which sometimes leads us to visualize the woman's blood, aggressiveness, pain, suddenly also reveals to us the feminine insurgency to fear and enunciates her own desires without repression.