Fernanda Faccin
In this master’s research, defended in 2013, the author lists four short stories from Marina Colasanti’s The Leopard is a Delicate Animal: 'Girl in Red on the Way to the Moon'; 'The Leopard is a Delicate Animal'; 'The Rules of the Game' and 'Without Kneeling'. The stories present rites of passage in different contexts, although they share the same metamorphic dynamic, characterised by passages, because there is a correspondence between the different modes of passage: from darkness to light, from the pre-existence of a human race to manifestation (mythical ancestor), from life to Death and the new post-mortem experience (the soul). The tales present characters who find themselves in transitional situations, of rupture and which lead them to a significant existential change. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to investigate the representations of rites in a contemporary and feminine narrative based on contemporary theorists such as Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, among others.
