Power relationships and authentic existence in "As filhas do falecido coronel", by Katherine Mansfield

Authors

  • Moisés Silva de Azevedo Filho Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
  • Clara Morghana Pereira Silva Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55847/enlaces.v4i.1029

Keywords:

Relations of power, Authentic existence, As Filhas do Falecido Coronel, Katherine Mansfield

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the short story As Filhas do Falecido Coronel (1920), by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, from the perspective of authentic existence to identify means of interference and social oppressions on the protagonists and, for that, we will highlight excerpts from the narrative in question for analysis. The research will be bibliographical and analytical in nature, having as theoretical support assumptions, above all, from Michel Foucault (1996), to contribute to the discussions about power relations, and from Miroslawa Kubasiewicz (2011), a Polish researcher who used the idea of “authentic existence”, a notion in vogue in many of Katherine Mansfield's narratives. Our proposal assumes that the protagonists of Mansfield's short story, the sisters Constantia and Josephine, adopt social roles imposed on them due to power relations constituted in patriarchy that impel them to exercise their will after their father's death, while they have difficulties in deal with various posthumous engagements.

References

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KUBASIEWICZ, M. Authentic existence and the characters of Katherine Mansfield. In: WILSON, J.; KIMBER, G.; REID, S. Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism. Continuum: London, 2011. p. 53-65.

MANSFIELD, K. Prelúdio. In: PINHEIRO, Flora (org.). 15 Contos Escolhidos de Katherine Mansfield. Tradução de Mônica Maia. São Paulo: Record, 2016. p. 170-227.

MANSFIELD, K. As Filhas do Falecido Coronel. In: PINHEIRO, F. (Org.). 15 Contos Escolhidos de Katherine Mansfield. Tradução de Mônica Maia. São Paulo: Record, 2016. p. 94-122

Published

2023-12-29

How to Cite

AZEVEDO FILHO, . S. de; SILVA, . M. P. Power relationships and authentic existence in "As filhas do falecido coronel", by Katherine Mansfield. Enlaces, Salvador, v. 4, p. e023008, 2023. DOI: 10.55847/enlaces.v4i.1029. Disponível em: https://publicacoes.ifba.edu.br/enlaces/article/view/1029. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.