O país das mulheres como um romance utópico feminista: entre o “esperançar”, o “lugar de fala”, a subalternidade e a decolonialidade

Abstract

Literary fiction has given itself to several readings, influenced by different fields of knowledge, among them, feminist criticism, which seeks to read creative texts in a critical way, proposing the overcoming of issues for gender problems. Thus, I defend the thesis that, in the government of Fáguas in O País das Mulheres (2011), the values of traditional femininity (motherhood, care, and contact), historically cultivated by women in the domestic space, were transcended to the public sphere, with the intention of weakening male dominance, bringing to the fore the role of women in public management, the values of hope and decoloniality, the place of speech and subalternity. The problem revolves around questioning the place of utopia, the advances of women's government, based on the transformations triggered by the 'risk' of the essence (FUSS, 2017), strategic essentialism (SPIVAK, 2017) and decoloniality (VERGÈS, 2020). The general objective is to investigate the ways of characterizing utopia and its semantic meanings, in a self-reflection on First and Second Wave humanist feminism. For this, we established the following specific objectives: to analyze the Utopia of felicism; reflect on the role of supporting characters; investigate the corruption of the men's dictatorial government and its conception of the valorization of domestic work, as well as the parodic and ironic language in dialogue with the press as the fourth power. We interpret that the work makes it possible to (re)think and question the harmful effects of patriarchy, still insistent in contemporary society in the countries of the Global South axis.