The improbable as part of the magical daily in the child's universe: an analysis of the book The Yellow Bag, by Lygia Bojunga
Vol.40,No.2(2019)
Abstract
Keywords:
marvelous; social behaviors; reality; fantasy
Pages:
65–78
This article aims to analyze the occurrence of facts that escape from the conventional empirical reality in the work A bolsa amarela, by Lygia Bojunga Nunes, from the perspective of the genre Marvelous. In the fictional text it is possible to notice the recurrence of magic elements populating the narrative environment in a natural way where animals and objects undertake the characteristic of speaking and interacting with the protagonist, mixing the real and fantasy to compose the narrative. In this perspective, a critical-interpretive reading of the implausible presence as a questioning mechanism of the social behavior models imposed on Brazilian society, especially women, will be proposed for this analysis. In this work Lygia addresses the internal and external conflicts of the character through secret friends, anthropomorphized animals and magical objects to question pre-established or stereotyped social roles, becoming the supernatural element in the narrative a way for the author to contest cultural practices of behaviors fruits of social models sculptured in a patriarchal system of organization and dominating relations, enabling through this action to give to the work a challenging and innovative literary view.
marvelous; social behaviors; reality; fantasy
65–78
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