Performatividade e biopoder em narrativas contemporâneas de autoria feminina: as mulheres ficcionais da coleção Amores extremos

Abstract

The thesis " Performatividade e biopoder em narrativas contemporâneas de autoria feminina: as mulheres ficcionais da Coleção Amores Extremos " is as a literary analysis and criticism work about the seven issues of Amores Extremos Collection, published by Record between 2001 and 2003: Recados da Lua: amor e romantismo, by Helena Jobim (2001); Para Sempre: amor e tempo, by Ana Maria Machado (2001); Através do Vidro: amor e desejo, by Heloísa Seixas (2001); Solo Feminino: amor e desacerto, by Lívia Garcia-Roza (2002); Obsceno Abandono: amor e perda, by Marilene Felinto (2002); O Pintor que Escrevia: amor e pecado, by Letícia Wierzchowski (2003), and Estrela Nua: amor e sedução, by Maria Adelaide Amaral (2003). The main objective of this thesis is to identify how contemporarily female writers build female characters in fiction aimed primarily at women. As the main working hypothesis, we approached stylistic traits, ideological positions, identity representations and interaction with the social and historical context of production of novels, in order to establish traits that show a dependency of these fictional productions to literary writings produced in Brazil during the 18th and 19th centuries, and that situate the novels of our search corpus within the women's mechanisms of domination exercised through bio-power, biopolitics, discourse, representation and performativity in disciplinary societies governed by androcentric standards. For theoretical basis of this work, we use Foucault's thesis, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zygmunt Bauman, Cliffod Geertz, Diana Klinger and Regina Dalcastagnè, among other researchers who discuss the issues commented in our study.