No. 2 (2003): Women, Art, and Literature: Memory, Subversion, and the Limits of Expression

This monograph analyzes the historical exclusion of women philosophers and proposes the notion of a “hidden tradition” to consider a female intellectual heritage that is non-institutionalized yet significant. Drawing on the figure of the Thracian girl, it reflects on the exile of thought and the double estrangement experienced by women in philosophy. It examines the affinities between the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and the work of Surrealist women painters, highlighting their strategies of subversion against the sexism of official Surrealism. It shows how these artists reinterpret the domestic sphere, the body, nature, and personal experience to construct their own poetics. The monograph focuses on The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector and the tension between fact and literature. Using the concept of melancholy, it analyzes poverty, the limits of language, and the impossibility of literature separated from lived experience.