Playful Feminism in Fiction by Contemporary Brazilian Women Writers
Contemporary fiction by Brazilian women writers showcases playfulness as a feminist and often intersectional tactic for catharsis and resistance. This new fiction incorporates humor via irony, exaggeration, fantasy, wordplay, and absurdity to narrate women’s struggles for fair treatment and lives fr...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/iberical, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Iberic@l
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | Contemporary fiction by Brazilian women writers showcases playfulness as a feminist and often intersectional tactic for catharsis and resistance. This new fiction incorporates humor via irony, exaggeration, fantasy, wordplay, and absurdity to narrate women’s struggles for fair treatment and lives free from discrimination. Drawing on María Lugones’s concept of playfulness and Shira Chess’s theory of playful feminism, this research demonstrates women’s capacity to be playful, a form of expression that they often must suppress. This article analyzes Marana Borges’s Mobiliário para uma fuga em março (2021), Natália Borges Polesso’s A extinção das abelhas (2021), and Carol Rodrigues’s A mulher do padre (2023). It then provides a longer interpretation of Polesso’s story “Tia Marga”, a playful response to intersectional sexism and homophobia. Engaging feminist theory discloses how this fiction is theorizing on its own account about the cathartic role of playful feminism. |
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