Subversão do poder e a representação da mulher: desconstrução da submissão feminina em romances de José J. Veiga

Abstract

This paper proposes to analyze the representation of women in the novels Os pecados da tribo (2005) and Aquele mundo de Vasabarros (1985) by José J. Veiga. We seek to unveil the condition of female characters in both narratives. In this way, the analysis starts from the idea that, despite the accentuation of patriarchal ideology, the women of Os pecados da tribo and Aquele mundo de Vasabarros subvert not only male power but, above all, political power, source of violence and oppression. Thus, due to the insertion of new values regarding the figure of woman as gender in society, arising from the struggles of feminist movements in Brazil, Veiga accompanies and represents the displacement of women from private to the public spaces in narratives, which show manifestations of resistance practiced by female characters, markedly situated in surveillance and censorship contexts of totalitarian governments. Critical perspectives by Hutcheon (1991), Souza (1990), Miyazaki (1988), Duarte (2003), Sarti (2001), and others, will be used to identify the representation of the female character in modernity: women who fight against the bonds of patriarchy, subvert social and political oppression, and then awaken in themselves and others the power of hope for freedom.