What body is this?
The construction of female bodies in Sheyla Smanioto’s narrative
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https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v16i3.29924Keywords:
female bodies, body tipology, Elódia Xavier, DesesterroAbstract
In recent decades, the female body has been re-signified as an analytical category and understood in its socio-historical concreteness, no longer summarized in tis merely biological condition. Based on this assumption, the objective of this article is analyzing how the female body is represented in contemporary literature by women. To achieve this purpose, we orient ourselves through the foundations of the typology of the representation of the body in literary texts written by women, developed by Elódia Xavier, a renowned researcher in the field of Brazilian and female literature, in the book intitled Que corpo é esse? O corpo no imaginário feminino (2021) — whose title of the present research makes a direct reference. The work selected as the corpus for this analysis was the award-winning debut novel by the contemporary author Sheyla Smanioto, Desesterro (2015), which narrates the harsh reality of four generations of women in the Brazil's northeast, constantly subjected to various manifestations of violence. The results achieved point to the multiplicity ot Smaniotian female characters, which can fit into different body categories listed by Elódia Xavier. Sheyla Smanioto introduces us to characters that are the result of violence to denounce and problematize the naturalization of structures of domination, in addiction to showing that there are other paths and possibilities for the female body.
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