“I love you, Hipólito”: the male presence for the existential validation of women in “Hipólito”, by Sonia Coutinho
Keywords:
Contemporary literature. Gender relations. Female voices.Abstract
This research, of a qualitative, bibliographic-documentary and analytical-interpretative nature, aims to analyze gender relations based on the short story “Hipólito”, written by Sonia Coutinho and present in the work “The Last Summer of Copacabana”, published in 1985. In this work, the objective was, based on authors such as Helena (1989), Scott (1995) Welzer-Lang (2001) and Zinani (2015), to problematize gender relations in the narrative, as well as to indicate the interdependence of these relations in view of that the behaviors established by the protagonist and her “lover” are constructs of a patriarchal and heteronormative society that needs, in turn, to be validated within a social body. That said, it was found that the narrative constructed by Coutinho (1985), responsible for emitting a female voice, presents the social and everyday expectations given to gender and sexuality, in addition to metaphorizing the need for female bodies to be validated, due, above all, to the misogynistic system in which these are represented, constructed.
References
BOURDIEU, P. A dominação masculina. 11. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil, 2012.
COUTINHO, S. Hipólito. In:______. O último verão de Copacabana. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1985.
HELENA, L. A personagem feminina na ficção brasileira nos anos 70 e 80: Problemas teóricos e históricos. Luso-Brazilian Review, v. 26, n.2, p. 43-57, 1989.
RODRIGUES, R. Mulheres e amores em ficções de autoria feminina. Campina Grande: EDUFCG, 2016.
SCOTT, J. Gênero: uma categoria útil de análise histórica. Educação & Realidade. Porto Alegre, v.20, n.2, jul./dez., p. 71-99, 1995. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/71721. Acesso em: 18 jan. 2024.
WELZER-LANG, D. A construção do masculino: dominação das mulheres e homofobia. Revista Estudos Feministas, v. 9, n. 2, p. 460-482, 2001.
ZINANI, C. Feminismo e literatura: apontamentos sobre crítica feminista. In: SEDYCIAS, João (org.). Repensando a teoria literária contemporânea. Recife: Editora UFPE, p. 409-434, 2015.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Silvanna Kelly Gomes de Oliveira; Marcos Aurélio Marques Lima
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. The articles are simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of its authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b) Discursividades journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public free of charge provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
