“Women adrift”: gender relations in the short stories “O pai”, by Helena Parente Cunha, and “A casa dos mastros”, by Orlanda Amarílis
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https://doi.org/10.35520/mulemba.2015.v7n13a5043Keywords:
feminism, gender, patriarchalism, violence, subalternity.Abstract
In the light of the Feminist Literary Criticism, this article aims at reflecting on gender relations based on the reading of two short stories written in Portuguese, but from different nationalities: “O pai”, by the Brazilian Helena Parente Cunha, and “A casa dos mastros”, by the Cape Verdean Orlanda Amarílis. These short stories bring to light the dramas, the violence, the discrimination, and the inequalities suffered by the protagonists.
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2015-12-30
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