O feminino em Niketche, de Paulina Chiziane: matriarcado, tradição e ruptura

Abstract

This research aims to present critical and theoretical considerations related to the feminine, through the work Niketche by Paulina Chiziane, which mobilizes themes about: tradition, marriage, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, dance and diversity, as forms of containment to the wills of patriarchy. This is a study that seeks to problematize the construction of the female subject in the face of a series of sociocultural contingencies, contributing to a broad social and literary debate on the condition of women in society. This is enhanced by the contributions of authors such as: Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Carl Gustav Jung, Martin Heidegger, Nancy Fraser, Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha, among others. In the light of this theoretical framework, this dissertation covers a trajectory in three chapters, in order to present how Chiziane builds the idea of autonomy and emancipation of the female subject, from a historical, social, psychological and aesthetic prism.