O duplo lugar de fala em As Parceiras, de Lya Luft

Abstract

This article promotes a debate on the place of speech of the silenced woman, a victim of the patriarchal system, in the work As Parceiras (1980), by the writer Lya Luft. In this way, violence against women in this novel is confused with the violence of patriarchy, within failed marriages of three generations of dissatisfied and unhappy women. Then, the narrative starts to be told by the narrating character, Anelise, through the memories that alternate between facts of each generation of women in her family, starting from the matriarch, Catarina, her mother, and aunts, until she reaches the protagonist’s disconcerting present. From this overlapping of voices Anelise and Catarina, we analyzed the woman’s place of speech, revered by Gayatri Spivak and Djamila Ribeiro, in order to explore the technique used by the narrator to give voice to the silenced women of her family, while she seeks to find herself in the present. Expanding the theoretical-methodological approach, we used the concepts of feminist and gender studies proposed by Lia Zanotta Machado, regarding the classifications of the different phases of gender violence, and by Carlos Magno Gomes, about the relativization of violence against female characters in the Brazilian contemporary narratives.