Irony and questioning the real and the fictional as self-representation strategies in Adília Lopes’ poetic works

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss how the poetic work of Adília Lopes uses irony and the questioning between the real and the fictional as self-representation strategies, based on the literary staging of an autobiography marked by an ironic, critical and subversive language. Using authors such as Linda Hutcheon (1985) and Flora Süssekind (2002) as a theoretical basis, a bibliographical research was carried out through which different poems by the author are analyzed with the aim of highlighting how the self-representation procedures used tend to forge an autobiographical illusion marking her enunciative self with the same characteristics as the real self, namely, the fact of being a woman, poet, Portuguese, single, religious, as a form of affirmation of the self as being of the female gender and renewing the artifice of the self-portrait by through irony and questioning between the real and the fictional.