VIOLÊNCIA E SUBMISSÃO: AS TRAJETÓRIAS DAS PERSONAGENS FEMININAS EM O REMORSO DE BALTAZAR SERAPIÃO, DE VALTER HUGO MÃE

Abstract

The culture of female submission has been ingrained in society from the beginning and violence against women runs through the centuries. According to Simone de Beauvoir (1970), with regard to women, "no matter how far back in history, they have always been subordinate to men: their dependence is not a consequence of an event or an evolution, it didn't happen" (1970, p.13). Thus, in the context of contemporary Portuguese literature, this research discusses the trajectories of female characters in the novel the remorse of baltazar serapião, published in Brazil in 2010, by the portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mãe. The aim of the study is to analyze the female representation and identify the types of violence against women present in the work. The research has a bibliographic character and the analysis was based in the contributions of Duby (2011) and Macedo (2002), to talk about women and marriage in the Middle Ages; Beauvoir (1970), to talk about the condition and female submission; Saffioti (2011) with the objective of dealing with gender and power relations; Žižek (2014) to expose the senses of violence; Teles and Melo (2012), with the aim of talking about violence against women, among others.