Da rosa ao espinho: a constituição do sujeito-mulher em As Brumas de Avalon.

Abstract

This research is based on a discursive reading proposal of the translated book As Brumas de Avalon, written by the North American author, Marion Zimmer Bradley. The saga is composed of four books, with volumes I and II being the corpus here. Discourse Analysis was chosen due to the fact that this approach offers the possibility of a text analysis integrated to its social, historical and ideological character, to the position of the text as a memory guardian. The main objective of the research is to investigate women’s constitution, inbetween the lines, via Foucault’s basic concepts, focusing the analysis on discourse concepts and control mechanisms, regimes, games, desires of the truth and power relations. The main female triad of the story, composed of Morgana, Viviane and Guinevere, will be analized. The theoretical framework, besides Foucault, involves authors whose interest of study is te subject, discourse and identities: Veyne (2011), Bauman (2005), Indursky (1998), Macedo (2014), Rodrigues (2016), Louro (1997), Hall (2002), Magalhães (2011), Baccega (2013), Orlandi (2002), Possenti (2002); (2004), among others. Despite the position of women in the social order presented in the story here chosen, it is believed that the subversion of the female character is the seed of a new era in which women will conquer a better place in society.