Uma leitura de Orlando: linguagem, gênero e sexualidade na obra de Virginia Woolf

Abstract

The research presented herein is a study of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando, and it aims at offering an overview of the protagonist’s relationship with her own gender and sexuality based on some of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler’s most well-known theories. This paper also takes into account the disruptive nature of the novel’s reality when compared to its exterior society, ruled by discourses that pathologize subjects who cannot adapt to an imposed, heteronormative way of living. By shedding light on the notorious role of language in the expression of feelings, changes and life events in the literary scope, this research recognizes the invaluable worth of Virginia Woolf’s poetic prose and highlights a few passages in which such expressions are part of the author’s work and, especially, in Orlando.