Perfis femininos em livros infantis de Monteiro Lobato (1920-1940)

Abstract

This study presents data from historial character research which aims to contribute to the analysis of representations about female profiles in the years 1920 to 1940, from dialogs of characters created by writer Monteiro Lobato in some of his infantile books from the same period. The analyzed books are Serões de Dona Benta (1937), Histórias de tia Nástacia (1937), Reinações de Narizinho (1931), Memórias de Emília (1936) selected titles because each of them has one of the female characters analyzed as protagonist , História do mundo para crianças (1933), História das Invenções (1937) and O poço do Visconde (1937) in which the issues of modernity and history are highlighted by the author. All the works are included in the collection Obras Completas de Monteiro Lobato Children s Literature (2nd series). In this study, entered in the field of the history of education, the main documentary corpus is the literary material and, therefore, it was necessary to approach theories of cultural history, history of printed and micro-history. At a first moment, the interference of technological and cultural innovations in the path of Monteiro Lobato, the intellectual, who filled different papers writer, editor and distributor in Brazilian communications system in the early decades of the Republic. Furthermore, in an interdisciplinary manner, through bibliographical research, the study deals with the concept of modernity that enabled the apprehension of the relationship Lobato s fictional writing with female discourses and practices, in which access has been acquired through letters and letterpresses from the analyzed time, as magazines and manuals of politeness. It is observed that the characterization of the characters were mainly linked to the modern cultural media, technological artifacts and to the educational debate, but that the practices of these renovator speeches depended, equally, to social, ethinic and financial beginnings of the characters represented on that context.