Representation of gender oppression and resistance: a dialogical analysis of the protagonist of Angélica, a novel for children and adolescents
Literature for children and adolescents. Dialogism. Zooliterature. Angélica.
Analytical studies that focus on literature for children and adolescents have proved to be a great contribution to the area as well as the arena of many discussions in academic research. In this sense, this study adds, to the existing literary studies, a discussion that seeks to understand to what extent the discourses of gender oppression and resistance constitute the ideological formation of the protagonist of Lygia Bojunga Nunes’s novel Angélica (1975/2019). Furthermore, based on this dialogue, it aims to discuss the construction of the ideological formation of the characters based on Bakhtin’s theory, focusing on the discourses of gender oppression and resistance introduced in the narrative. In order to analyze the corpus, zooliterature, conceptualized by Maciel (2007; 2008; 2011; 2016a; 2016b) and other authors, cooperates with the Bakhtin Circle’s (Bakhtin, Voloshinov and Medvedev) dialogism. As for the methodology, this is a bibliographic research, guided by the Circle’s notion that the true literary analysis starts from the text. The partial results of this dialogic study point to the recognition and analysis of the axiological positions on gender discourse and woman resistance represented by the character Angélica.