GIRLS WHO WORE MANY COLORS: EXTRAVIOS E VIAS EXTRAS NAS MULHERES DA GERAÇÃO BEAT

Abstract

The Women writers of the Beat Generation legacy is greatly shaped by including this word in the middle of the subject: “women”. As part of a literary generation known for its use of spontaneous prose, the space for free creation, and a road with an adventure model distinctly inscribed by male writers, what kind of roads do these women writers travel? Also, considering the Beat Generation's legacy of spiritual search and freedom in literature, how do these women work within these lines, and what models of roads do they trace? This research seeks to think together about how the idea of freedom is constructed in the text and its presence in the signifier ‘woman’. This signifier is thought of in this dissertation in a dialogue with its perception in the psychoanalysis field, such as Lacan's (2008) views and “The Woman don’t exist”, and the relationship between the femininity and the “escape” (Lacan, 1999), as well as taking into account Hélène Cixous' (2024) idea of writing as a space of having no home and wandering. If we consider that whenever there is a road, side roads are built from its existence, what does it mean to “escape” from this line? This research is based on the hypothesis that it is possible to create an extra road, “extra” side roads that are formed in a desiring model without an end, as always there is an “extra” that can enter this chain. Such organization, characterized by a deviation, highlights the wandering; the impermanency and omissions marks. Considerations that allow us, finally, to think of these writings as operating within a logic of their own: the escape.