A vulnerabilidade da mulher no período de guerra em um homem: Klaus Klump, de Gonçalo M. Tavares

Abstract

This study aims to analyze women's vulnerability in the war period in the work Um homem: Klaus Klump (2003), Angolan writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, seeking to identify traces of male dominance, as well as other aspects that contribute to women still suffer the effects of the most troubled period in which they were inserted. We propose to examine how is the fragility of the female characters more significant of the novel, investigating its submission signals and immanence in relation to man. In this perspective, we focus on figures Johana, represented as the standard of defenseless women and servile, and Herthe, which denies such features and use their pride to survive that environment full of violence. To this end, we will discuss how is the difference between the genders, seeking to explain how the idea of superiority of men is passed from generation to generation through education. Also, we talk about the positions that men and women occupy socially, reflecting on their roles of rulers and ruled. Still treat sexual inhibition, trying to show how the issue occurred throughout history, in addition to approach the issue of sexual violence, something recurring in the narrative. To support our work, we used the basic theories Bourdieu (2014), Beauvoir (1970, 1975), Foucault (1988) and Giffin (1994), helping the study of our corpus.