O CONTO DA AIA: UMA LEITURA MULTIDISCIPLINAR

• Main Authors: Eloísa Cecília Dias Martins, Elizeu Pinheiro da Cruz, Sidnay Fernandes dos Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2020-07-01
• Series: Revista Binacional Brasil - Argentina
• Subjects: dystopia; speech; genre; sexuality; the handmaid’stale
• Online Access: http://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/rbba/article/view/6567/4867

This text presents an analysis of the novel “The Handmaid's Tale”, Margaret Atwood, and its cinematographic version in series format as a possibility for multidisciplinary reflection on issues such as gender relations, kinship and the nature-culture dichotomy to reflect on contemporary Brazilian and American political context. In the story, the Republic of Gilead, founded on a religious fundamentalism after a coup, is made up of exclusively heterosexual relationships that circumscribe gender and sexuality to the dimension of a fixed nature, originating from a creator God. Atwood's work brings themes from feminist agendas, ecological, religious, political, minority rights, gender, among others, that have been and are at the center of electoral agendas in recent years and, therefore, cannot be oblivious to them. By engaging the analysis in problematizing oppressions against the minorities of the present time, the authors of this text face their correlations with the oppressions of the Republic of Gilead.