Representações femininas na literatura juvenil contemporânea: uma análise a partir da trilogia grisha de leigh bardugo.

Abstract

This paper analyzes four female representations from the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, written by Leigh Bardugo from 2012 to 2014. The work, signalized as fantasy literature, is aimed at young adults, therefore, it analyzes concepts related to youth and their relationship to literary reading. Furthermore, it reflects on possible correlations between the characters and real women. To this end, notions related to female heroism are explored throughout the analysis of the characters, as well as their characterizations regarding standard beauty, sexuality, seniority, and the attribution of the witch imagery. The analysis is based on the cartographic method as presented by Deleuze and Guattari (2011) and Passos, Kastrup, and da Escócia (2015), considering the relationship between researcher and object in the production of knowledge. Thus, other literary readings characterized as fantasy and young-adults, starred and written by women, are activated to compare and substantiate the actions of the selected characters. This choice is based on the researcher's relationship with literature and the works she encountered before and during the development of this dissertation. Finally, nine chapters are proposed to support the research, four of which analyze the characters and five analyze topics essential to the observation of female representations, namely, youth, feminism, fantasy literature, the relationship between young-adult literature and young people, and the introductory map.