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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0230-8426
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Degree Type
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2021
Month Degree Awarded
September
Abstract
It is intrinsic to modernity the expansion of the philosophical detachment from the religious view as critical reason takes place in science, art and the worldview of modern man. Through Kant's reflections, in The Religion within the limits of reason alone (1793), we will seek to understand this process of rupture between faith and reason which explains the prevailing thought in postmodernity. We chose the renowned writer, José Saramago, and his works of religious nature as our objects of study, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) and Cain (2009), as they represent, in the Portuguese language, the voice of the man who is still attracted by the literature of literatures – composed by the Pentateuch and the other canonical books. The author wishes to understand, question and to find the contradictions in believing in an absent, flawed and guilty God. Instigated by the importance in which the "Marys" are portrayed in the Apocryphal Gospels, and to further condemn this God, Saramago recreates in his parodies, a postmodern and anti-religious gospel whose eroticized reinvention of the biblical women - the "Marys", Eve and Lilith - results in the demystification and humanization of the characters and the destabilization of patriarchal discourse. Thus, before analyzing the creation of a new myth of women and their role in Saramago, we will study what was postulated by the feminist theorists, Simone de Beauvoir (2016) and Luce Irigaray (2017), which determine the place of the woman as the "Other", by an exclusionary monologic language that puts her at the service of the elaboration of the universalizing male, which also occurs in the saaramguian language.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/24603184.0
First Advisor
José N. Ornelas
Second Advisor
Margara Russotto
Recommended Citation
Santiago, Camila C., "A Religião e o Papel da Mulher na Desestabilização e Humanização do Discurso Judaico-Cristão em duas Obras de José Saramago: O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo e Caim" (2021). Masters Theses. 1090.
https://doi.org/10.7275/24603184.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1090
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