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Campo de tensão entre géneros em A história de uma Serva (1985) e Os testamentos (2019), de Margaret Atwood
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Nesta investigação pretende-se fazer uma aprofundada análise das obras The Handmaid’s
Tale [A História de uma Serva] (1985) e The Testaments [Os Testamentos] (2019), da
escritora canadense Margaret Atwood, com o intuito de estudar o campo de tensão entre
os géneros feminino e masculino retratado nas obras. Perante uma distopia patriarcal,
Margaret Atwood dá-nos a conhecer uma perspetiva ficcional que é de todo imaginável,
onde testemunhamos o género feminino subjugado ao género masculino, na voz de uma
personagem que relata os acontecimentos do seu dia-a-dia. As duas obras em análise, que
surgiram num contexto histórico diferente, mas que seguem a mesma narrativa, desafiam
o leitor a refletir sobre o papel e a importância das mulheres na sociedade ficcionada nos
textos analisados e, consequentemente, na realidade social contemporânea. O sistema
ideológico refletido nos textos possibilita igualmente a análise de como o género
masculino intervém na ação, ou melhor, como as figuras masculinas estão relacionadas e
afetam as vidas das figuras femininas, por beneficiarem de maior poder. Procura-se
descrever e analisar de que modo, numa história fictícia, se refletem aspetos da realidade
cultural contemporânea pelo olhar da autora em questão, bem como a relação entre
géneros narrada e como esta resulta num campo de tensão através da representação de
conflito entre as figuras. Pretende-se evidenciar em que medida as duas obras em estudo
perpetuam o legado de Simone de Beauvoir na atualidade, isto é, quais as ideias e teses
apresentadas no seu livro O Segundo Sexo (1949) que se refletem nos textos de Margaret
Atwood e são recebidas pela modernidade.
This investigation intends to make an in-depth analysis of the works The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Testaments (2019), by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, in order to study the tension field between the feminine and masculine genders portrayed in the works. Faced with a patriarchal dystopia, Margaret Atwood introduces us to a fictional perspective that is entirely imaginable, where we witness the female gender subjugated to the male gender, in the voice of a character who reports the events of her day-to-day. The two works under analysis, which emerged in a different historical context, but which follow the same narrative, challenge the reader to reflect on the role and importance of women in the fictional society in the analyzed texts and, consequently, in contemporary social reality. The ideological system reflected in the texts also makes it possible to analyze how the male gender intervenes in the action, or rather, how male figures are related and affect the lives of female figures, as they benefit from greater power. It seeks to describe and analyze how, in a fictional story, aspects of contemporary cultural reality are reflected through the eyes of the author in question, as well as the relationship between narrated genres and how this results in a field of tension through the representation of conflict between the figures. It is intended to show to what extent the two works under study perpetuate Simone de Beauvoir's legacy today, that is, which ideas and theses presented in her book The Second Sex (1949) are reflected in Margaret Atwood's texts and are received by modernity.
This investigation intends to make an in-depth analysis of the works The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Testaments (2019), by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, in order to study the tension field between the feminine and masculine genders portrayed in the works. Faced with a patriarchal dystopia, Margaret Atwood introduces us to a fictional perspective that is entirely imaginable, where we witness the female gender subjugated to the male gender, in the voice of a character who reports the events of her day-to-day. The two works under analysis, which emerged in a different historical context, but which follow the same narrative, challenge the reader to reflect on the role and importance of women in the fictional society in the analyzed texts and, consequently, in contemporary social reality. The ideological system reflected in the texts also makes it possible to analyze how the male gender intervenes in the action, or rather, how male figures are related and affect the lives of female figures, as they benefit from greater power. It seeks to describe and analyze how, in a fictional story, aspects of contemporary cultural reality are reflected through the eyes of the author in question, as well as the relationship between narrated genres and how this results in a field of tension through the representation of conflict between the figures. It is intended to show to what extent the two works under study perpetuate Simone de Beauvoir's legacy today, that is, which ideas and theses presented in her book The Second Sex (1949) are reflected in Margaret Atwood's texts and are received by modernity.
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Estudos de género Campo de tensão Margaret Atwood Mulheres Distopia Patriarcado Gender studies Tension field Women Dystopia Patriarchy Literatura, Cultura e Diversidade . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades