BETWEEN AFFECTION AND CONFINEMENT: AN INTERTEXTUAL AND DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF AMOR I LOVE YOU AND O PRIMO BASÍLIO THROUGH THE LENS OF FEMINIST CRITICISM

Authors

  • Pâmella Lopes Ferreira de Oliveira Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
  • Marcos Rogério Heck Dorneles Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55028/mz221706

Abstract

This article investigates the aesthetic and ideological dialogues between the song Amor I Love You (2000), performed by Marisa Monte, and the novel O Primo Basílio (1878), written by Eça de Queiroz. Grounded in the assumptions of Feminist Criticism and Cultural Studies, this study examines how the idealization of bourgeois romantic love operates as a device for controlling and confining female subjectivity. The central problem lies in the survival of patriarchal structures that, camouflaged under the rhetoric of affection in mass culture, perpetuate emotional dependency and domestic isolation. Methodologically, a discursive and intertextual analysis is carried out, based on the theoretical contributions of Adichie, Saffioti, Zinani, Duarte, and Escosteguy, alongside concepts from French Discourse Analysis. The findings indicate that inserting a realist literary fragment into the structure of pop music destabilizes its apparent romantic linearity, turning the phonographic product into a territory of political dispute over women’s bodies, discourses, and desires.

Author Biography

  • Marcos Rogério Heck Dorneles, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

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Published

2026-09-10