Representações do sujeito feminino em O Despertar e Riacho Doce: um estudo comparativo

• Autor(a) principal: Mangueira, José Vilian
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6209
• topic: O Despertar; Riacho Doce; Estudo de Gênero; Feminismo; Literatura comparada; The awakening; Riacho Doce; Gender Studies; Feminism; Comparative Studies; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This research intends to be a literary investigation based on a comparative study of two novels: The awakening, by Kate Chopin, and Riacho Doce, by José Lins do Rego. Our analysis is an attempt through Gender Studies to trace the representation of the feminine on these two literary masterpieces. To achieve that, it focuses its analysis on the two main characters, Edna Pontellier, from The awakening, and Edna/Eduarda, from Riacho Doce, to show how those women are different from the female models created by the patriarchal system that rules the social setting in which those female characters are placed. Because these two heroines do not correspond to what is expected from them, they face a world which isolates them; finding only on the symbolic representation of the sea the first and the last space for their longing.