Musas interrompidas, vozes silenciadas: a representação da identidade feminina no conto “O retrato oval”, de Edgar Allan Poe- Doi: 10.5212/Uniletras.v.32i2.008

Abstract

This article analyzes the representation of the female identity in the short story “The oval portrait” by the North American writer Edgar Allan Poe from the perspective of gender studies, which considers the asymmetrical power relationships between male and female characters, as well as the symbolic violence that emerges from this relationship. The analysis of the short story pointed out that the female image is constructed as a silent being and as the object of a male aesthetical realization, which confi rms the asymmetry between the two genders and the symbolic violence that turns the feminine into an object of art.