A READING ON THE FEMALE BODY IN VIA CRUCIS DO CORPO, BY CLARICE LISPECTOR
Clarice Lispector, literature, female body.
This present research aims to examine how the female body is portrayed in the collection of short stories, Via Crucis do copo (1991), written by Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). Her book depicts a more complex outline of the female body marked by sexuality and aging issues. We propose an investigation of how gender and sexuality discourses might affect character identity formation, strengthening or discouraging the hegemonic concepts of what it is to be a woman. In order to do so, we have selected “The sound of footsteps”, “But it's going to rain”, “He drank me up”, and “Mauá square”, which referred more representatively to the female body, aging, and sexuality. This research is grounded on the feminist literary criticism (2003), on Beauvoir's concepts of aging (1990), on Butler’s contributions on body, gender, and sexuality (2003), and also on Louro (2001), Foucault (2015) and Weeks (2001).