TEXTURES AND BASTING BETWEEN THE LINES OF THE STORIES “O BORDADO” AND “PALAVRA DIFÍCIL”, BY MARTA HELENA COCCO
Feminine writing. Tale. Myth. Muting.
The work has as its theme the construction of female characters that are representative and authentic of their condition as women in Brazilian literature written by women in Mato Grosso. The intention is to research the possibility of protagonism through this literature and that which leads, mainly, the readers to identify with the exposed universe. The short story The embroidery and Difficult word, part of the book Não presta pra nada, by Marta Helena Cocco, and its intertextuality relationship with the myth of Penelope will be the starting point for the study with unfolding the metaphor write/weave. The actions of weaving and embroidering, transcending the traditionally feminine universe. Contemporary society has expanded debates about female protagonism, stimulated in different ways. In this context, female writing provides the expansion of these discussions, since the reader's encounter with writing often promotes self-recognition and experienced situations. For Antônio Cândido (2000), reflection on human existence, its conflicts, its contradictions in universes that move between the individual and the collective, between the subjective and the objective dimension of social reality. Among these experiences, silencing stands out as a form of violence against women. For Rossini (2014), the speech is delivered from a female perspective that gains voice within a narrative. In the theoretical contribution of the research, there are critics and theorists of the literature, such as: Magalhães (2001), Leite (2005), Bourdie (2004), Albuquerque Jr (2012), Candido (1989), Bakhtin (2003), Schwantes (2021) and Walker (2021), Coelho (2002), among others. The research methodology will be qualitative, resorting to bibliographical sources such as books, scientific articles, dissertations and theses, as well as the analysis of the myth of Penelope and the short stories The embroidery and Difficult word by the writer Marta Cocco (2016).