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A MULHER NEGRA E AS RELAÇÕES DE GÊNERO EM MENINO DE ENGENHO DE JOSÉ LINS DO REGO

2011; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5216/sig.v23i1.16155

ISSN

2316-3690

Autores

Zélia Monteiro Bora Marina Rodrigues de Oliveira,

Tópico(s)

Literature, Culture, and Criticism

Resumo

The so called sugar cane cycle novels by the Parahyban writer Jose Lins do Rego (1901-197) and its relationship with society and culture constitute themselves as fictional approaches through which the writer sought to represent aspects to the understanding of gender relations in the Northeast of Brazil in the early twentieth century. Such representation, undoubtedly reflects the perspective of a narrator deeply marked by the privileged place from which he narrates and his existential condition, as the son of a plantation owner. Given these aspects, we propose to examine briefly the implications of his perspective on the symbolic construction of the black woman characteres represented in the novel. The following

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