Literatura e gênero: uma análise das personagens femininas nos contos <amor= de Clarice Lispector e <a moça de tecelã= de Marina Colasanti

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the short stories <Amor=, by Clarice Lispector, and <A Moça Tecelã=, by Marina Colasanti, construct, through their narrative and symbolic structures, reflections on gender violence and power relations in a patriarchal society. The research is characterized by a bibliographic nature, based on theoretical references focused on Brazilian literature in modernism, from Moisés (2001), Bosi (2006) and Veríssimo (1998), as well as on discussions on gender, patriarchy and feminist criticism, with emphasis on Beauvoir (2016). The analysis reveals that, in <Amor=, the protagonist experiences an existence based on the conformity of the roles of wife and mother, but marked by a feeling of symbolic imprisonment and social invisibility, broken by an awareness catalyzed by an unexpected event. In <The Weaver Girl,= the protagonist, initially the owner of her own narrative and freedom, sees her autonomy gradually undone in the marital context, until she symbolically breaks with this cycle of oppression. Both works subtly and poetically highlight the mechanisms of gender domination, while also pointing out paths of resistance, whether through introspection or transformative action