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- Title
O OLHAR CRUZADO: GÊNERO E RAÇA NA CONSTRUÇÃO DA ALTERIDADE DO SUJEITO COLONIAL EM "THE NUISANCE", DE DORIS LESSING.
- Authors
do Nascimento SOUSA, Isabela Christina; MEDEIROS, Aldinida
- Abstract
This study has as its purpose the analysis of the short story "The nuisance", part of the collection African Stories (2014), written by the Iranian author Doris Lessing. Its goal is to show how colonial subject alterity is constructed through the gaze of the narrator, who occupies the position of the colonizer, seeking to explore how gender acts in the construction of differences between black men and women inside the narrative. In order to achieve the established goals, bibliographic research was conducted, especially sustained by the works of Hooks (2020), Bhabha (1998), and Bahri (2013). In "The nuisance" (2014), the colonial subject is determined from the outside, through the gaze of the colonizing Self, the narrator ascribes to him wild features and describes him most of the time through comparisons with animals. Furthermore, the denial of the rights of name and feelings reinforces, therefore, the process of objectification, which they are subject to during the process of colonization. In addition, it is also possible to observe the valorization of masculinity and thus the legitimation of feminine submission; besides being the victims of racism, black women are also culturally and socially subjugated for their gender.
- Subjects
LESSING, Doris May, 1919-2013; BLACK men; COLONIES; GAZE; MASCULINITY; NAMING rights; SELF; GENDER
- Publication
Itinerários - Revista de Literatura, 2021, Issue 53, p53
- ISSN
0103-815X
- Publication type
Article