Emancipation, ethics and justice in the relationship between husbands and wives of Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde

Abstract

This article analyses the emancipation attempting of the self by having the death as an answer of/to the Other in the matrimonial relationship which is represented in the following shorts stories: “Marido” (Husband) from the Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge; “A moça tecelã” (The weaver lady) from the Brazilian one Marina Colasanti and “Foram as dores que o mataram” (The pain killed him) from the Cape Verdean Dina Salustio. The violence repre­sentations of the man/husband/oppressor over the woman/wife/oppressed will be trespassed by the philosophical-ethical-religious Lévinas proposal, which defends the sociability to the Other as a Face primacy demand. In this way, it is a demand to find motivational traces of ethics and justice in the fictionalized facts (deaths).