REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN A MULHER HABITADA, BY GIOCONDA BELLI: A STUDY FROM A POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Next, we analyze the work A mulher habitada (2000), by Gioconda Belli. Which discusses the nationality of the author, starting from the flow of indigenous origins in Nicaragua in the 16th century, configured by the Itzá indigenous female character, and starring Lavinia who breaks the paradigms of patriarchal society and presents themes around social suppression and oppression. In this sense, Belli (2000) further discusses the construction of female identity, gender, violence, power relations, ethnicity, politics, economy. Not referring to romance, the author focuses on the role of women in society, presenting us as the female subject that recovers vestiges of a repressed memory by hegemonic power, with marks in the ideological process of invisibility of the figure of women, a problematic rooted in the intention of pretended superiority from the Eurocentric perspective. It highlights aspects of feminist criticism and identity perspectives. The theoretical assumptions will be based on scholars and literary critics who deal with the topics listed, such as: Nicaraguan literature, Belli (2000); Contijo (2019); Randall (1989), to address post-colonial quests, Quijano (2005); Spivak (2010), on identity, Stuart Hall (20015), Homi Bhabha (2019) to discuss indigenous guidelines OliveriGodet (2019), Potiguara (2014) among other researchers who dialogue with the research content.