COQUEIRO, Wilma dos SantosSOUZA, Andressa Oliva de2026-05-182026-05-182026-05-182026-03-26https://repositorio.unespar.edu.br/handle/123456789/982This research falls within the area of concentration Society and Development, linking to the line of research Human Formation, Sociocultural Processes and Institutions, and is aligned with the supervisor's research project, entitled "Literature, Society and Women: expressions of writing by female authors". In fact, violence against women has been a recurring theme in contemporary female literature, representing, in narratives, a worrying social reality that, although it is based on underreported numbers, reveals itself in alarming statistics. In light of this, the present study, focusing on contemporary Brazilian female authorship, aimed to analyze the representations of gender violence in the novel The weight of the dead bird (2017), by Aline Bei, examining how moral, physical, psychological, sexual and symbolic aggressions are represented through stylistic and literary resources in the narrative. The research also seeks to investigate the representations of the protagonist's silencing after the chain of violence suffered. Throughout history, women have been denied the right to tell their own stories. Violence has long been absent from fiction, although it is very common in reality. Contemporary literature by female authors is thus revealing the oppressions of centuries of silence. Therefore, this work, which is based on an interdisciplinary perspective, proposes a dialogue between historical and historiographical studies (Perrot, 2005, 2017, 2019; Lerner, 2019) and sociological studies (Saffioti, 2015; Bourdieu, 2002) regarding the condition of women in patriarchal society and the violence inflicted on these bodies in order to render them invisible and silence them. In order to contribute to this analysis, which is guided by a qualitative and interpretative methodological apparatus, assumptions from Cultural Studies and Feminist Literary Criticism will also be considered (Figueiredo, 2020; Bonnici, 2007; Zolin, 2019a, 2019b; Garcia, 2011; Silva, 2019; Bandeira, 2019; Showalter, 1994, 2009; Cevasco, 2003, 2009). The results of the analysis point to an understanding of how literary fiction – as a refraction of society, in the terms of Antonio Candido (2023) – highlights and denounces the violence suffered by the protagonist of the novel and, beyond her, the violence suffered by many women outside of fiction, thus exercising the power to question and alter historically consolidated social injustices.Estudos Culturais e Crítica Feminista, Interdisciplinaridade, Romance de Autoria Feminina, O peso do pássaro morto, Violência de gêneroDissertaçãoInterdisciplinar