Representação da opressão de gênero e da resistência: uma análise dialógica da protagonista do romance infantojuvenil Angélica

Abstract

Analytical studies that focus on literature for children and adolescents have proved to be a great contribution to the literature as well as the arena of many discussions in academic research. In this sense, this study adds to the existing literary studies a discussion that seeks to understand to what extent the discourses of gender oppression and resistance constitute the ideological formation of the protagonist of Lygia Bojunga Nunes’s novel Angélica (1975/2019). Furthermore, based on this dialogue, it aims to discuss the construction of the ideological formation of the characters based on Bakhtin’s theory, focusing on the discourses of gender oppression and resistance introduced in the narrative. The field of zooliterature, conceptualized by Maciel (2007; 2008; 2011; 2016a; 2016b), among other authors, cooperates with the theory of dialogism of the Bakhtin Circle (Bakhtin, Voloshinov and Medvedev) for the analysis of the novel. As for the methodology, this is a bibliographic research, guided by the Circle’s notion that the true literary analysis starts from the text itself in its relationship with culture and “great times”. The final results of this dialogic study point to the recognition of the axiological position of rejection of the patriarchal authoritarian discourse of silencing the female character and her resistance, represented by the animal-character Angélica.