“I SEE MYSELF GOING TO THE FOREST AND LETTING THE CARGO BIKE ROLL DOWN THE HILL”

Maternity In Morra, Love

Abstract

The article proposes a critical reading of Ariana Harwicz's novel Die, My Love, based on a dialogue with historiography and social theory on the normalization of female bodies. The narrative, marked by a chaotic and sensory stream of consciousness, presents a maternal character who challenges traditional models of motherhood. Based on Badinter (1985), the historical mechanisms that naturalized the role of the mother as the moral center of the family are analyzed. The work highlights a motherhood experienced with anguish, hostility, and a desire for rupture, reflecting the subjective effects of social impositions. The character does not represent an anomaly, but rather the symptom of a model that oppresses and silences. Her refusal to perform the maternal ideal is read as a gesture of subversion, highlighting the importance of denaturalizing motherhood and listening to experiences that break with the myth of the ideal mother.