The men’s daughters and the mirrors: the female perspectives in novels of Rachel de Queiroz and Lygia Fagundes Telles
Rachel de Queiroz and Lygia Fagundes Telles appeared in the Brazilian literature not just because their literary talent, but mainly for being women in a scene predominantly male and for giving voice to female and strong characters in a conservative education context. In their books, both the authors...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | letrônica |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/35086 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/35086 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Brazilian literature. Rachel de Queiroz. Lygia Fagundes Telles. Literatura brasileña. Rachel de Queiroz. Lygia Fagundes Telles. Literatura brasileira. Rachel de Queiroz. Lygia Fagundes Telles. |
| Sumario: | Rachel de Queiroz and Lygia Fagundes Telles appeared in the Brazilian literature not just because their literary talent, but mainly for being women in a scene predominantly male and for giving voice to female and strong characters in a conservative education context. In their books, both the authors in a certain way have reported the problems of a generation of women who were limited by social values rooted in a patriarchal and Christian culture over the XX century. The parallel drawn here between As três Marias, by Queiroz (1939), and As meninas, by Telles (1973), clarifies this point. Through the comparison between the two texts, we discuss in this article questions as the social role and sexual liberation of women in this system, beyond the female emancipation, the pressure of social conventions and the few life options that women had access especially in the first half of the XX century, debating paradigms under the social diversity and the female perspective. |
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