Abstract
Three bestsellers published in the last ten years-Twilight(2005), The Hunger Games(2008) and Fifty Shades of Grey(2011)-present an impressive deal of violence against the female body, a fact that demands investigation considering it may shape their readers' views on this. Therefore, this work aims at analyzing the discourses on violence against the female protagonist's body through the study of linguistic features in extracts from those three books. The analysis is done under the light of Critical Discourse Analysis, verifying the discourses embedded in this violence and the repercussions these discourses may have in terms of perpetuating gender stereotypes, especially in literature. More specifically, the focus of this study is on the for the violence against women and if these justifications come from and/or consolidate hegemonic ways of thinking regarding this subject.
Highlights
Feminist literary criticism has long listed the way women are depicted in books as one of the items considered worth of sharp analysis
In recent decades a new factor has emerged which has added even more reason for that: the renewed forms and force violence against female bodies has been taking in bestsellers. he justiications for this violence and the reasons behind these justiications vary, but there it is: the female body being beaten, broken, burnt, and all that displayed in words for millions of readers to see
Hree books published in the last ten years have sold impressive numbers of copies, many of these purchased by women and even by teenage girls: Twilight (2005), he Hunger Games (2008) and Fity Shades of Grey (2011)
Summary
Hree bestsellers published in the last ten years–Twilight (2005), he Hunger Games (2008) and Fity Shades of Grey (2011)–present an impressive deal of violence against the female body, a fact that demands investigation considering it may shape their readers’ views on this. Herefore, this work aims at analyzing the discourses on violence against the female protagonist’s body through the study of linguistic features in extracts from those three books. He analysis is done under the light of Critical Discourse Analysis, verifying the discourses embedded in this violence and the repercussions these discourses may have in terms of perpetuating gender stereotypes, especially in literature. The focus of this study is on the “justiications” for the violence against women and if these justiications come from and/or consolidate hegemonic ways of thinking regarding this subject.
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