The Cage”, by Augusta Faro

(des)incarceration of feminine in domestic environment

Abstract

The text analyses the short story The Cage, written by the contemporary writer Augusta Faro, from a feminist aesthetics. The narrative is situated within the scope of marginal women's literature, as, in a way, the writings are on the margin of the literary canon system. It also aim to reflect the female condition and gender violence, emphasizing the different aspects assigned to women and the different types of violence experienced by them, evidencing the possibility of rupture and objection to the perverse logic of patriarchy. The analysis reveals the breaking of stereotypes and the subversion of hegemonic patterns set for the female from the portrait of the fourth generation, that opposing to the structural sexism, empower itself, achieves the freedom and the autonomy for managing their lives and make their own choices. To promote a discussion, we based our analysis on the studies of Betty Friedan (2020), Helleith Safiotti (2015), Júlio Cortázar (2006), Nádia Gotlib (1990/2004),  Ricardo Piglia (2004), Simone de Beauvoir (1990a; 1990b), Wayne Booth (1980), among others. We conclude that the short story analyzed enable the readers, especially the female audience, a reflection on the different types of women imprisonment and, in  a special way and with an aesthetical beauty, possibilities of rupture and transgression of perverse enclosures of feminine that still exists nowadays in the sociological, ideological and moral contexts.