Petróleo, pratas e putas : relações de poder em A noiva escura, de Laura Restrepo

Abstract

From ancient Greece up to nowadays, the female gender carries a burden of submission before the male gender, which beggings with the biological differences and goes up to the sociocultural sphere. For centuries, women remained silenced, withstanding the condition of domination imposed to them, mainly because the differences of their body compared to men. However, little by little, the female gender starts to fight for their social equality, acomplishing, up to a certain point, similar rights of those of men. Even so, the difficulty to equal the rights between both genders is still veiled in our society. This work analyses, from the perspective of Cultural Studies of Gender, significant elements of female representation and their sexuality, represented in "A noiva escura", by Laura Restrepo, with the intention of discussing the subversion or not of the patriarcal speech by means of women's sexuality use. Then, the hipotesis defended is of the women, choosing prostitution as a mean of survival, as well as pleasure itself, puts themselves away from male dominance. It's also needed to emphysize, by stimulating the division of genders, society represented in narrative holds high the values based on patriarcal ways, remains to female move on their sexuality. In this way, the deconstruction of the opposition man/woman and the other oppositions associated with one, in the narrated universe happens by female sexuality, represented by the main character – Sayonara, the prostitute.