Vestidos e mordaças: representações da opressão feminina na Literatura Brasileira nos séculos XIX e XX

Abstract

In diachronic view , involving two centuries, the XIX and XX, a dissertation aims to draw a picture of the situation of four female characters in Brazilian Literature, in relation to oppression and violence, not from a purely sociological approach, because this is the work of other areas of knowledge such as Sociology and Anthropology, but from the perspective of a literary bias as a representation of the cultural history of our country, highlighting characteristics of these women and their reactions to the disqualification by female and male patriarchal domination of Brazilian society, mainly on the most vulnerable social groups, in rural and urban areas. In this regard, the characters selected, emblematic in its construction, will support for analysis: Lucíola, José de Alencar in the novel homonym; Sinhá Victoria, Graciliano Ramos, in Vidas secas; Leniza, Marques Rebelo, in A estrela sobe and Macabéa, Clarice Lispector, at the A hora da estrela. Therefore, the work it is proposed, first, to talk about the issue of feminism in Brazil and the world through writers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth Badinter. Moreover, I intend to speech on the historical and cultural vision of the formation of Brazilian society, so that the intricacies of the role of women and the question women are perceived in a more objective and factual