THE WEAVE AND THE COSTUMING: METAPHORS OF FEMALE EMPOWERMENT IN TWO SHORT STORIES BY MARINA COLASANTI

Abstract

The tales of Marina Colasanti seem to roam, at first glance, between the real and the fantastic, which match the actions that lead human relationships and their dilemmas. Inserted into the narrative meanders to raise much broader reflections, the tales of the writer are interlaced with words and situations that reveal daily life and the behavior required from women. From the analysis of short stories "A moça tecelã", of the book Doze reais e a moça no labirinto do vento (1982), and "Plano matrimonial", in Contos de amor rasgado (1982), we show how the author builds, metaphorically, on the narrative the men clothes and Weaver's work to reflect about the empowerment of women. The tales have in common the heterosexual relationship of the protagonists by male costumes, which brokered of symbology and reveal, in the literary context, the explanation of the social place of the woman and the man, seen as one of the lines that aligned the human experience. In this way, Marina Colasanti weaves, in discursive story, the networks of meanings and the feminine action.