2025-04-292025-04-292025-03-24SANTOS, Samyli Nascimento. The testaments by Margaret Atwood: an analysis in light of necropolitics. Orientadora: Ana Lília Carvalho Rocha. 2025. 22 f. Trabalho de Curso - Artigo (Graduação em Letras Língua Inglesa) – Faculdade de Línguas Estrangeiras. Campus Universitário de Bragança-PA, 2025. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/8049. Acesso em: .https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/8049This article analyzes necropolitics and its manifestation in dystopian narratives, focusing on female resistance, using the novel The Testaments (2019) by Margaret Atwood as its corpus. The work, a continuation of The Handmaid’s Tale, is set in a dystopian world where oppression and control over women are central. Necropolitics, a concept by Achille Mbembe, refers to the sovereign power to decide over life and death, clearly evident in the Gilead regime, which exerts absolute control over women's bodies. The aim of this study is to examine how The Testaments relates to necropolitical theory, highlighting the female characters’ resistance strategies against the domination of their lives and deaths. The analysis adopts a textual and theoretical approach, comparing the novel with necropolitical theories and feminist theories that contextualize the characters' resistance. The women’s struggle against Gilead’s totalitarian system, which reduces them to mere reproductive bodies, exemplifies the tensions between sovereign power and resistance. The research highlights that necropolitics in The Testaments goes beyond physical violence, manifesting in symbolic destruction, memory manipulation, and the subjective subjugation of individuals. This study aims to contribute to literary studies by fostering a critical reflection on oppressive structures in contemporary society and the forms of resistance against them, especially in the context of control over female bodies.Acesso AbertoNecropoliticaResistenciaDistopiaOs TestamentosO conto da AiaNecropoliticsResistanceDystopiaThe TestamentsThe Handmaid’s TaleCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNASTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - ArtigoAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International