GARCIA, G. G.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2387831805593127; GARCIA, Gerlândia Gouveia.
Resumo:
This work aims at carrying out a study about six medieval fabliaux in order to verify
how women are represented in these texts. The fabliaux circulated between the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Northern France. These are short comic
narratives, written and composed of domestic quarrels, clerical lusts, and especially
female trickery episodes. These texts appear along with other literary productions of
the Middle Ages (lais, exempla, chanson de geste, canso and romance) and were
generally presented as a vehicle for the spread of the discourse of hatred and
aversion to women, known as misogyny. arratives where female protagonists were
placed as inferior to the opposite sex are not infrequent. To support such discussion
we will take as a starting point Badinter (1985), Scott (1991) and Bourdieu (2014)
who present gender as a category of historical analysis. Besides these, Gaunt
(1995), Perfetti (2006) and Woods (2010) collaborate in the presentation of female
profiles which are different from those that are commonly presented by current
scholars dedicated to studying fabliaux. Our proposal is to show that, in addition to
the discourse of female inferiority, the narrative presented may show us another
female role/profile. This new view will be possible through the hierarchical inversion,
presented by Bakhtin (2013) as carnavalization. The subversion of the hierarchical
order will allow us to show and realize the protagonist of the fabliau in an empowered
way. Through comedy, she assumes another role within the masculine discourse,
presenting herself as creative, smart, intelligent, tricky and able to overcome
challenges.