Inscrições do corpo feminino em contos de Marina Colasanti

Abstract

This article intends to investigate how the representation of the female characters takes place in three short stories from O leopardo é um animal delicado (1998), by the writer Marina Colasanti. To attain the proposed objective, we have done a bibliographic research, whose analysis focuses on the female protagonists of the short stories “Menina de vermelho a caminho da lua”, “O leopardo é um animal delicado” and “Amor e morte na página dezessete”, assuming that they were created by a woman writer –or a writing woman. Thereby, the reading of those texts, seeking to analyze the matters that concerns the inscriptions of the female body, is guided by the nature/culture dualism and theorical-critical studies that look into questions related to gender. For this purpose, we have hold on the theorical-critical assumptions of Elaine Showalter (1978), Lúcia Osana Zolin (2010), Rita Terezinha Schmidt (2016) and Peggy Sharpe (1997)