A origem do mundo, uma história cultural da vagina ou a vulva vs. o patriarcado: a ressignificação do feminino por meio da ironia

Abstract

This study aims at recognizing the importance of graphic novels as literary genres and their capacity of promoting important discussions to society. Looking at this perspective, Liv Strömquist’s work is used as the object of this study, which analyses in “Fruit of Knowledge” the use of tools such as irony and humor in order to give a new meaning to everything which permeates the female and erasure the patriarchy majoritarian speech. Sustained by the proposal of language renovation discussed by Richard Rorty (2007), which looks for a more joint construction of the communication and, consequently, less based in absolutisms. This analysis also counts on an expanded look at the graphic novels’ universe which uses both written text and image, creating a complex literary construction, expanding meanings and ways of looking at the world around us, requiring then a panoramic view of everything, unflattening meanings and allowing the amplification of metaphors. Keywords: graphic novel, irony, humor, female, patriarch, erasure, rupture