The present work analyzes the working of senses on the feminine in the work The
hour of the star, by Clarice Lispector. We anchor our work to the perspective of
Discourse Analysis of French matrix and with it entering the interface language/literature, we put as main scope the analysis of the corpus formed by cuts of the text, trying to cross the paths of the crystallization of the dominant senses, at the time of writing of the work, on the feminine image, in the confrontation of the characters‘ profiles. In other words, we investigate the socio-historical conditions of textual production of the work, analyzing and identifying brands of power relations present in the text and their relations with socio-historical-ideological conditions that cross the formulation of meanings about being a woman. The object of analysis of this work sought to approximate to the paths of a qualitative research and aims the comprehension of discursive constructions that form the feminine, in the search of its constitutive elements through the discourse at a certain time in history. In the first
chapter, we consider the work, the literature and its articulation with the AD, as well
we approach the authorship. In the second chapter, we consider the dialogue of
these two disciplines, we approach the discursive memory and the silence, then we
start with the analysis of the functioning of the senses in the third chapter. Our
analysis concluded that the senses underlying to the formation of the feminine in the
1970s express the crystallization of senses derived from earlier times, which basis is
rooted in the power relations subtly disseminated by the ideology of masculine
superiority over the feminine. We also conclude that there is an express mobility in
these senses that mark the way of the women in search of their autonomy, in a
course where operate the divergence and contradiction that establish the dialogue
with the movement, constructing the multiplicity of senses on the being woman.