Representações do feminino em Théophile Gautier e Aluísio de Azevedo

Abstract

The research carried out a study about the feminine observing fantastic narratives of century XIX in France and in Brazil. As a corpus for analysis, we selected the tale La Morte Amoureuse from 1836 written by the Frenchman Théophile Gautier and the novel A Mortalha de Alzira from 1891 written by the Brazilian Aluísio de Azevedo. The main characters in focus are Clarimonde and Alzira and their several faces. We do not, however, fail to find out the voices that tell their stories, their dubious partners, Romuald and Angelo, the societies that surround them and how fantastic literature treats them. The theoretical contribution comes from the studies of Mary Del Priore, Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, in the historical part of the research. Tzvetan Todorov, Claude Lecouteux, Julio Jeha, Luiz Nazário, H.P. Lovecraft and Claude Kappler when we refer to the fantastic and monstrous notion of work. This way, we can observe how social construction determines the performance of the female in literary texts, how they react to such constructions and how fantastic Literature and its authors conceive these monstrous women.