SUBMISSION AND FEMALE OPPRESSION IN "ROCKING CHAIR" BY OSMAN LINS
Agenor Francisco de Carvalho | 55-66
ABSTRACT: This bibliographic study intends to reveal the narrative elements used by the Brazilian writer Osman Lins in the psychological space of submission and female oppression in "Rocking chair". The story tells the routine of the female character Júlia Mariana, in front of the domestic tasks, which represent a challenge to her condition as a pregnant woman. The details created by writer represent a vigil of the male figure - Augusto exercised over the wife. The suffering, loneliness and silence lived by the character are only relieved when she dares to empower herself and sit on the representative object of her husband's authority - the rocking chair. There she relaxes, imagines, dares, feels. In that little bit of time she is able to forget her condition of submission. Based on studies by Agranti (1999), Bachelard (1978), Brandão (2013), Perrot (2005), Dalcastagnè (2015), Lins (1976), among others, this analysis some notes on female empowerment and reveals condition of submission and oppression indicated by writer to his female character. The narrated psychological space is punctuated with objects that permanently watch the character, imposing the resignation and acceptance of its condition to have been born woman, in a society of the male chauvinist culture.
KEYWORDS: Rocking Chair, female empowerment; psychological space; submission.
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