As representações femininas e as relações de gênero em As Meninas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

As a result of an uneasiness, in the contemporary scenario, this work intends to contribute to the deconstruction of the masks of this society that, over time, insists on legitimizing female inferiority using biological aspects as a justification. With this, the discussion about gender relations within Brazilian society becomes relevant, reflected in the pages of the novel As Meninas (1973) by Lygia Fagundes Telles, since the author herself tries to emerge troubled relationships, as a consequence of a friendship between women and their fragile pacts. That said, this work used female authorship to better understand these nuances of gender relations that have been established in society, based on authors such as Antônio Candido (1999), Silvano Santiago (2002), Leyla Perrone-Moisés (2016) and Regina Dalcastagnè (2012). Still, in conversation with female authorship and literary criticism, we rely on authors such as Teresa di Lauretis (1994) Hélène Cixous (2017), Stuart Hall (2004), Elódia Xavier (1991), Mary Del Priore (2018), also aiming to understand how gender issues intertwine with female writing, in today's society. In this sense, it is clear that beyond the time when events happen, the impacts of patriarchal society on women are not diminished. Thus, this work proposes to analyze how gender representations among female characters, whereas, these are transported to their other affective relationships, during the course of the work.