Relações entre as significações do espaço ficcional e a representação das identidades femininas em A audácia dessa mulher, de Ana Maria Machado

Abstract

The technological revolution and the feminist movements that happened during the 20th century, added up to the globalization phenomena in the early 21st century, result in the change of identity of individuals and in resignification of the spaces of inhabiting, especially, when it comes to the conditions which women had been through under the aegis of male domination. This project investigates how the ways of representation of fictional spaces to live occur in their regional, natural and domestic dimensions, and the condition of the female identity in the contemporary female written literature, having as study object the literary work A audácia dessa mulher (The boldness of this woman) (1999), by Ana Maria Machado. From the culturalist approach, we used the concepts of fictional spaces subjectivity, besides aspects of phenomenological philosophy and humanist geography, as well as assumptions of feminist literary critics, establishing relations with the socio-historical context represented in the romance, examining how the female characters and its spaces of inhabiting relate. We also verify how each space is built from an specific historical, social and cultural condition, culminating in the constitution of symbolic environments rich in signification, from the imposed and/or assumed identities, depending on the existence time of the characters, each one in their specific moments of living.