Uma análise das protagonistas de A vida invisível de Euridice Gusmão e Purple Hibiscus sob as lentes do dialogismo e da crítica feminista

Abstract

Studies in comparative literature have brought great contribution to this area of knowledge and grounded countless academic research studies over the years. In this regard, this research adds a new component to comparative studies, viz., the dialogic approach to literary studies, and aims to find out at what extent the heterodiscourse related to women in a patriarchal/male chauvinist society is represented in the novels A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (2016), written by Brazilian author Martha Batalha, and Purple hibiscus (2003), written by Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, the corpus of this research. These works, which are analyzed from the perspective of the theory of dialogism of the Bakhtin Circle (Bakhtin, Voloshinov, Medvedev) in dialogue with feminist criticism, reflect and refract the position of women in contemporary societies as the main characters of the novels are placed in positions of inferiority. Methodologically, this bibliographical research follows the Circle’s orientation that the analysis of a text starts from the text and reaches the context of small time and great time. The results of this comparative/dialogical study between the novels prompted reflections not only on the position of the women represented in the novels and lived in the world of life of the novel’s context of production, but also on the dialogue between dialogism and feminist criticism and its contribution to literary analysis.