Histórias e identidades das sujeitas femininas em As doze cores do vermelho (2009), de Helena Parente Cunha

Abstract

The present dissertation, titled Histories and identities of female subjects in As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha, has as objective to investigate how the female subjects construct their histories and identities in the novel, analyzing, from their experiences, the construction of the everyday of these women. The Helena Parente Cunha´s paper brings the female being as a fragmented figure that ends up to divide due to the oppression of the patriarchal society in which it was inserted. This question justify the fact we consider the novel of Helena Parente Cunha as a contestatory for put in debate the female being in a contemporary vision, in which women are ahead of their time. The characters makes up for change their attitude, thinking and way of being, thus they end up constructing new identities. The characters are represented through adjectives and colors symbolize which represent their personality inside the novel. Based on this, we analyzed the female profile of the subjects and their histories. So, this research presents as delimitation of the theme Histories and identities of the female subjects in As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha. And as guiding questions, we took as basis: i) How the studies of gender and identity articulate in the work As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha? ii) How is the process of construction of the identities of the subjects in the studied work As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha? iii) How the feminist studies articulate to the formation process of the identities of the female subjects in the work in study? In front of the questions that guide this research, we elaborate the following general objective: Investigate how the female subjects construct their histories and identities in As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha, under perspective of gender, feminism and identity studies. And as specific objectives: i) analyze the behavior of the female subjects in As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha; ii) find out the opposition of the behavior of the subjects of As doze cores do vermelho (2009), by Helena Parente Cunha, in relation to the women of their era; iii) ascertain the different identities in construction of the subjects, considering the contemporary context. As theoretical basis of this work, we used gender, identity and feminism studies. In addition, we adopted as methodology the bibliographic and qualitative research for it is a literary analysis. To elaborate this work it was used studies about literature by female author, issues of gender, feminist theory and identity. We used as theoretical reference the main works by Joan Scott (1970), Teresa de Lauretis (1994), Carla Cristina Garcia (2015), Raewyn Connell (2005- 2015- 2016), Rebecca Pearce (2016), Judith Butler (2022), between others. About the questions of female representation we counted with the contribution of some theoriticals, like Simone de Beauvoir (1980), Lúcia Castello Branco (1991), Constância Lima Duarte (2002), Lucia Osana Zolin (2003), Michele Perrot (2007), between others. And about the conflicts involving identity we used like theoretical basis Beauvoir (1973), David Harvey (1989), Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda (1994), Tomaz Tadeu Silva (1992- 2000), Stuart Hall (2006) and Kathryn Woodward (2014).