A narradora irônica como dispositivo de crítica feminista: movimentos excêntricos na poética da casa e da rua em A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão, de Martha Batalha

Abstract

The present dissertation takes a theoretical-critical journey through the novel A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão, by Martha Batalha (2016), under the literary feminist criticism perspective, focused on the narrative multiplicity, which is embraced by the proposal of the contemporary Brazilian literature. More specifically, it seeks to identify the strategies employed by Batalha's storyteller to re-signify the past by contextualizing it in the present, thus disclosing the origins of the sociocultural systems that underlie expectations and judgments in the construction of otherness. At the same time, it operates the ex-centralization of polarities, in line with Hutcheon's (1991) proposal regarding the poetics of postmodernism. This analysis points out the genealogical architecture of the characters, used by the author to break with binary constructions, which have historically locked men and women in opposite poles. The character's space-time occupation in the plot is also analyzed, since it comes to be a consequence of such a genealogical structure. We have also identified the use of irony, especially the jokes, strongly present in Batalha's narrative as an instrument of subversion of the story told. By means irony, we perceive that an apparently unpretentious plot is transformed into an instrument of critical reflection regarding the socially instituted roles under the focus of totalizing molds. Generally speaking, this study indicates how the genealogy and the irony, from an omniscient narrator's perspective, are applied as a key instrument to reframe the reader's view to sharpen their perception towards a plural reading.