Patrícia Melo’s Valsa negra: gender and representation - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v29i2.726

This work is a study on gender relationships as represented in Valsa negra (Black waltz), a novel by Brazilian contemporary writer Patrícia Melo. Differently from female author tradition, the text has an autodiegetic narrator. The protagonist is a successful fiftyish conductor, married to a Jewish v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Zolin, Lúcia Osana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/726
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/726
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:autoria feminina
gênero
representação
Patrícia Melo
Descripción
Sumario:This work is a study on gender relationships as represented in Valsa negra (Black waltz), a novel by Brazilian contemporary writer Patrícia Melo. Differently from female author tradition, the text has an autodiegetic narrator. The protagonist is a successful fiftyish conductor, married to a Jewish violinist thirty years his junior. The action in the novel consists of the affective problems caused by the pathological jealousy he feels for his wife, which will be analyzed in this work. The theoretical approach used is Feminist Criticism.