O Vigia/Watchman: spectral women

Abstract

It aims to continue the analysis of previous articles that relate the works O Vigia/Watchman by the artist Flávio CRO, the comic book Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and the literary work 1984 by George Orwell, based on possible perceptions about the feminine in these works. The analysis is based on feminist studies on gender and spectatorship with Teresa de Lauretis and Laura Mulvey, observing the continuities and displacements of the image of women in the tradition of pop culture products. Additionally, we raise the issues of Jacques Derrida's specters as traces of the presence/absence of the feminine in the plots analyzed. For the most part, the female characters in those productions are placed in secondary positions that serve the purpose of supporting the construction of the characters of the heroes and anti-heroes in the story. The associations of the names of the “Spectral” characters (mother and daughter) can be seen as a possible denunciation and pointing out of the ghostly place of these female bodies in the comic book tradition, just as the existence of the character Júlia is mediated by the memory and spectral voice of Winston in 1984.