A violência simbólica nos contos de Nélida Piñon e Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

This work aims to show how gender violence is present with the female characters of the stories "I Love My Husband" from the collection the O calor das coisas (1980), of Nelida Piñon and the short story "The Espartilho", from the work "A Estrutura da Bolha de Sabão" (1978), by Lygia Fagundes Telles. We try to identify the standards imposed by patriarchy daily as a way of a symbolic violence against women. We highlight bullying and the exhaustive routine of daily life in the family as a way to discipline the female body. To achieve this purpose, we will use as base the concept of gender linked to feminist studies, since our analysis is guided by feminist literary critics. As a theoretical framework, we will make use of the anthropological studies by Rita Laura Segato (1998, 2003), which is an overview that shows a panoramic view regarding gender hierarchy and discusses how symbolic violence is imposed as part of the rules; as well as of the sociological studies by Pierre Bourdieu (1999) who points out that that the "male domination" and prejudice against women are part of institutions such as family, school and church; and with the literary studies, we followed the guidelines of Elódia Xavier (2007) which highlights ten kinds of female bodies in the minds of female authorship, especially the disciplined body. In the first chapter, we will address the hierarchy of processes of genres with violence as a potential factor for the maintenance of inequality; the second and third, we will observe in literary texts as gender violence affects the interpersonal interaction of the protagonists of the selected tales.