Crazy Lady is an early old woman and needs care

Authors

  • Jorge Alves Santana Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Goiás, UFG. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Linguística.
  • Benjamin Rosenthal Fundação Getúlio Vargas, FGV/SP. Pesquisador nas áreas de Consumer Culture Theory e Gerontologia Social.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2017v20i2p27-44

Keywords:

Adélia Prado, Old Age, Care.

Abstract

“Old Age is a way of feeling cold that assaults me/ and a certain acidity”: that’s the beginning of a poem of Adélia Prado, in which she deals with the thematic of aging, old age and the care that is necessary in this phase of life. In opposition to the initial impression that these stanzas transmit to us, the perspective of Adélia Prado on this entire poem and on the other poems that we’ll discuss in this article, is the concern for the elderly, for instrumental practices of care, and for the bio-political, humanitarian and democratic conditions that may optimize the elderly life in our society. Adélia Prado has an illusio about the inexorable of old age and we will discuss this illusio. We will also discuss dispositions towards care that are evoked in her poems. These care practices may alleviate the “natural” physical, psychosocial deconstructions that old age might bring to all of us. In this work we deal with conceptual elements from Simone de Beauvoir, Leonardo Boff, Pierre Bourdieu and others.

 

Author Biographies

Jorge Alves Santana, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Goiás, UFG. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Linguística.

Professor Associado III, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Goiás, UFG. Membro permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Linguística. Pós-Doutorado em Estudos Literários e Culturais pelo Pós/Lit. da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.  

Benjamin Rosenthal, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, FGV/SP. Pesquisador nas áreas de Consumer Culture Theory e Gerontologia Social.

Professor Assistente da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, FGV/SP. Doutorado em Administração de Empresa (ênfase em Marketing). Pesquisador nas áreas de Consumer Culture Theory e Gerontologia Social.

 

 

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Published

2017-06-30

How to Cite

Santana, J. A., & Rosenthal, B. (2017). Crazy Lady is an early old woman and needs care. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 20(2), 27–44. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2017v20i2p27-44

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Papers

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