Araújo, Rosanne Bezerra deComissário, Ana Paula Pereira2018-09-052018-09-052018-07-31COMISSÁRIO, Ana Paula Pereira. Uma leitura sobre o corpo feminino em A via crucis do corpo, de Clarice Lispector. 2018. 110f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2018.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/25763This present thesis aims to examine how the female body is portrayed in some short stories of the collectionThe via crucis of the body (1991), written by Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). Her book depicts a more complex outline of the female body marked by sexuality and aging issues. We propose an analysis of how gender and sexuality discourses might affect character identity formation, strengthening or discouraging the hegemonic concepts of what it is to be a woman. In order to do so, we have selected “The sound of footsteps”, “But it's going to rain”, “He drank me up”, and “Mauá square”, which referred more representatively to the female body, aging, and sexuality. This research is grounded on the feminist literary criticism (2003), on Beauvoir's concepts of aging (1990), on Butler’s contributions on body, gender, and sexuality (2003), and also on Louro (2001), Foucault (2015) and Weeks (2001). The analyses of the short stories point to the fictional trait of the sex and gender categories, insofar as any sex (biologically differentiated body) is an empty body if it lacks a gender that culturally gives meaning to it. Thus, if sex and gender are not natural, we propose subversion, as the characters of the narratives do, to some extent, adopting performativity that exceeds binary boundaries,in the pursuit of freeingthe body and itspotentialities.Acesso AbertoClarice LispectorLiteraturaCorpo femininomasterThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA