Lourdes Ramalho e O Trovador Encantado: mulheres e dis/u-topismos ibero-judaicos no cenário da inquisição Portuguesa no século XVI

Abstract

This article promotes a reflection on the confrontation of violence against Ibero-Jewish women in the context of the Portuguese Inquisition in the 16th century, using as a corpus for reading-interpretation the dramatic cordel O Trovador Encantado (2005), by Lourdes Ramalho (1920-2019), and the historical background of the female condition observed in the studies of Herculano (2009), Green (2012), Freire (2006) and Kramer (2019). The objective was to interpret the strategies of women to confront the countless forms of violence suffered during the inquisitorial regime undertaken by the author in this dramatic work in light of gender studies, cultural studies and critical studies of dys/u-topia, with authors such as Lokaneeta (2016), Murdock (2022), Bloch (2005) and Deplagne and Cavalcanti (2019) as references. The study results in an analysis of the performance of the characters Mulher Dama and Bruxa Lilia in the face of structural, symbolic and epistemic violence against women in the Ibero-Jewish context within the dystopian regime of the Portuguese Inquisition.