“Mulheres viris” no naturalismo brasileiro: estudo de A carne (1888), de Júlio Ribeiro, e Livro de uma sogra (1895), de Aluísio Azevedo

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Marina Pozes Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
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• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/20042
• topic: Novela brasileña; Siglo XIX; Naturalism; Brazilian novel; 19th century; Naturalismo; Romance brasileiro; Século XIX; Júlio Ribeiro; Aluísio Azevedo; Mulheres na literatura – Séc. XIX; Naturalismo na literatura; Literatura brasileira – Séc. XIX; Azevedo, Aluísio, 1857-1913 - Crítica e interpretação; Azevedo, Aluísio, 1857-1913. Livro de uma sogra; Ribeiro, Júlio, 1845-1890 - Crítica e interpretação; Ribeiro, Júlio, 1845-1890. A carne; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA COMPARADA

In the present dissertation, we intend to analyze the performance of the "virile women" in Brazilian naturalist fiction, in the first moment of circulation of the aesthetics, in the 1880s and 1890s. In this period, "virile woman" was a recurrent theme in the press to refer to intellectualized women, who sometimes wore masculine clothes and showed little concern for their toilette. In this study, we intend to go beyond their appearance, encompassing women in naturalist literature who were considered "virile" for assuming roles and functions normally attributed to men. The "virile women" in Brazilian naturalism, by assuming male roles and functions in the novels, promote a critique of the norms and codes of patriarchal society. Their actions and attitudes, understood as anti-patriarchal at the first moment of circulation, put in crisis the patriarchal authority, in which the woman figured as submissive and inferior to the man, educated for marriage and motherhood. We explore this hypothesis in two important Brazilian naturalist novels that were bestsellers when they appeared: A carne (1888), by Júlio Ribeiro (1845-1890), and Livro de uma sogra (1895), by Aluisio Azevedo (1857-1913), highlighting the virility of their protagonists. Instead of describing these characters as hysterical women and nymphomaniacs, as portrayed by traditional historiography, we see the protagonists' actions and thoughts as indications of autonomy to decide about their destiny, love and sexual life, putting the patriarchal, authoritarian and oppressive society in check