Figurações da donzela-guerreira nos romances Luzia-homem e Dona Guidinha do Poço

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2001

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This research work studies the maiden-warrior s topos, her adequacy and withdrawal, in the novels Luzia-Homem and Dona Guidinha do Poço. It also studies this character s permanence in the imaginary of the western culture which has been strong enough to her fi-equent reappearing into the western literary tradition, with time, thus allowing her to configure the fundamental characters which form a micro-plot of strong internal cohesion, perfectly recognisable for it has a specific ethos in its deep structure, but which can be reappeared in countless variations in its surface structure. The figure of the maiden-warrior was brought into light fi-om the outside, of course. Among us her appearance started fi-om the popular literature, especially in the cordel literature. After that it conquered space in the scholar literature, mainly in the novel genre, which foeus, stage to its narrative, is the arid countryside universe, atavistic place, near the semi-feudal world, which socio-cultural and political co-ordination are regulated by the safe mores of patriarchy. In Luzia-Homem the difficulties in the attempt of appearance of this topos are resulting fi-om the devotion of Domingos Olímpio to the feminine stereotype of the romantic and naturalist convention, which clothes design impedes him to create a fearless, bellicose, determined woman, and willing to a jus agendi ofthese characters. As a result it creates a contiguous figure, a sort of bionic, fearless woman. She is a hybrid and excessive being, a type of improbable lubber, far fi-ombeing the intended maiden-warrior s figure. In Dona Guidinha do Poço Manuel de Oliveira Paiva raises the figure of a strong and determined woman, able to carry on with her own life and to determine the fate of the others. She is, however, incapable of any heroism or altruism gesture. Her selfcentred behaviour moves her away fi-omthe maiden-warrior. Perfect incarnation of the bossy woman who thinks is noble, at the mercy of the fortune inherited fi-omher father, her figure comes closer to the topos of the bossy unrestrained woman. Our version of the comic figures of the afazón, buffoon or termagant woman, ancient in habitant of the Greek.

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regionalismo - brasil literatura brasileira - historia e critica

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