portuguese

Abstract

The article is dedicated to examining the representation of rape in contemporary literary production by women. In order to do this, I will compare four recently released novels with works published over a broad period of time by male and female writers. In making these comparisons, I argue that the novels from the first decades of the 21st century reveal an empowerment of female agency in the face of the threats or trauma of sexual violence, thus distinguishing themselves from a historiography marked by the construction of women's powerlessness in the face of such brutality.