“Alguém joga xadrez com a minha vida”: mulheres e o tabuleiro social nas narrativas de Martha Batalha e Giovana Madalosso

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the novels A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (2016), by Martha Batalha, and Suíte Tóquio (2020), by Giovana Madalosso, which provide an overview of the feminine and feminist achievements made throughout the 20th century and XXI. Once literature is a powerful reading key for understanding these liberation movements, the works, which date from the 1940s and 2020s, demonstrate how feminist waves were fundamental for the transformation of gender spaces in the country. From the comparison between both texts, a critical investigation is sought regarding the paths of female authorship production in Brazil, the formation of the Middle Class and the perpetuation of family models at the heart of Brazilian society. Thus, the body, affections and political spaces unite with literary criticism to provoke provocations regarding the construction of a Brazil of the future that is still closely linked to the past. This research, therefore, is one among many investigative possibilities of the history of such an important movement and so markedly linked to ultra-contemporary Brazilian productions, which deal with themes that, day after day, raise heated social debates.