Gender Manifestations in Brazilian Contemporary Literature and their Repercussions on Teaching Literature: an Analysis of the Book 'Enfim, Imperatriz', by Maria Fernanda Elias Maglio

• Autor(a) principal: Chitolina Cardoso, Gabriella
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Valim de Melo, Cimara
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Tear: Revista de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/5025

Abstract: In the current scenario, Brazilian literature has increasingly sought to represent individuals who are made invisible by society. In this perspective, contemporary women writers have played an important role by contributing to the purpose of approaching subalternized characters and feeding the debate about gender issues through a decolonial view. Amongst them, there is Maria Fernanda Elias Maglio, author of the book of short stories Enfim, Imperatriz, published in 2017 and winner of the Jabuti award in 2018. Based on the aforementioned literary work, this article aims to analyze the way in which the author portrays gender relations and, more specifically, to understand how the short stories “Viva em Maputo” and “Geni” represent social objectification, violence and (de)coloniality itself. In methodological terms, the research, with a qualitative approach, relied on the bibliographic analysis for the investigation on the 21st century Brazilian narrative in theoretical and critical terms. As a result, there is a strong female representation in Maglio’s work, as well as the presence of social objectification in different social contexts portrayed by the stories, elements that can corroborate the teaching work and bring positive repercussions to the teaching of literature, encouraging the reading of the world and the attentive look at the relationships of otherness. From the analysis, it is possible to observe the need to build a minorizing education, which addresses contemporary social issues through the bias of the decentralized and culturally marginalized individual, in a movement of cultural transgression in front of the dominant structures of power. Keywords: Contemporary Brazilian Literature. Decoloniality. Gender. Minoritizing education.