Araújo, Rosanne Bezerra deLopes, Bruna Rafaelle de Jesus2023-11-132023-11-132023-04-26LOPES, Bruna Rafaelle de Jesus. A política dos corpos: as relações de poder e de família nas personagens de Carmen Laforet, Marília Arnaud e Vargas Llosa. Orientadora: Dra. Rosanne Bezerra de Araújo. 2023. 148f. Tese (Doutorado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/55318This dissertation questions possible similarities and differences between the demonization of female characters created by female authors and that which torments female characters developed by male authors. These questions incite the need to understand who these characters are in works of fiction. As such, the research done in this study considered the following objectives: investigate, by means of comparative study, the construction of subjectivities present in the observed characters related to relationships of power and the human body, in addition to erotism present in family relationships throughout the novels: Nada [Nothing] (1944) by the Spanish author, Carmen Laforet (1921-2004); O Pássaro Secreto [The Secret Bird] (2021) by the Brazilian author, Marília Arnaud (1960–); and Elogio de la madrastra [The Stepmother’s Praise] (1988) as well as Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto [The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto] (1997) by the Peruvian author, Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–). Furthermore, this study seeks to analyze how the maternal role of the female characters in these novels is rendered problematic, witnessing the tendency to break from the social expectations of how a woman should embrace motherhood. In order to develop and support this analysis, undertones of several theoretical precepts are referenced including: Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of dialogism (1997, 1997, 2010, 2011); views of eroticism and sexuality from Georges Bataille (2014), Sigmund Freud (2006, 2020), and Michel Foucault (2012, 2013, 2014). Reflections on the notion of gender and gender culture as historical and linguistic constructions are also taken into account from the texts of authors Judith Butler (2003), Simone de Beauvoir (2019), Margaret A. McLaren (2016), and Susan Bordo (1997). The analysis of the text corpus reveals that the observed female characters in the chosen works refract the social context in which they are inserted, being exposed to the time and space of determined power relations. It is perceived that this deviation often results in the denouncement of their roles in family ties and as members of society. Furthermore, there is a distinguishable difference between the more complex female characters of Arnaud and Laforet and the more simple-minded ones of Vargas Llosa, demonstrating that there is a much deeper sense of anguish in the characters created by female authors.Acesso AbertoRelações de poderCorpo femininoRelações familiaresArnaud, MaríliaLaforet, Carmen, 1921-2004Llosa, Mario Vargas, 1936doctoralThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA