Uma voz subversiva, um corpo liberto : a construção identitária da figura feminina em Muito Além do Corpo, de Luzilá Gonçalves Ferreira

Abstract

This dissertation have focus on the construction of the female character in the book Muito Além do Corpo, by Pernambuco writer Luzilá Gonçalves Ferreira. To carry out this investigation, we sought, first, to trace the path of construction character's identity, which based on their own reflections and understanding of the world, defines what is favorable or not for your well-being and freedom. This work aims to analyze the corporeality of the character, bringing him closer to the idea of a liberated body. For this we will use as the main theoretical basis What Body is this? The body in the feminine imagination (2021), by Elódia Xavier, Intimate Stories, sexuality and eroticism in the history of Brazil (2011), by Mary de Priore, Caliban and the Witch, women, body and primitive accumulation (2017), by Silvia Federici.In addition to focusing on Michael Foucault (1987), Simone de Beavouir (1967), Bourdieu (2002); making a historical and social survey of the body issue in society and how the mind/body dichotomy contributed to the separation of man/woman in a negative way. To deal with feminism, Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles (1999), Constância Duarte (2009),Virginia Woolf (2014) among other no less important names. From these and other theoretical bases, we will seek to present the historical and social construction of the female body in society and how the character's body in the aforementioned work is endowed with a liberated body.Observing also how their identity construction turns in the opposite direction of what is expected by the social scope by the social scope immersed in masculinist ideas.