A voz das mulheres na literatura contemporânea latino-americana : possibilidades para a escrita do feminismo na América Latina

Abstract

This thesis proposes as object of study the female historical characters drawing from themes such as representation and corporeity, in Latin American novels published from the 1990s on. The literary corpus is composed by works of female authors, focusing on female characters who played a leading historical role: El pergamino de la seducción (2005), by Gioconda Belli; La cinta roja (2008), by Carmen Posadas; Malinche (2006), by Laura Esquivel; Xica da Silva, a cinderela negra (2016), by Ana Miranda; La mujer que llora (2013), by Zoé Valdés; Dos veces única (2016), by Elena Poniatowska; En el tiempo de las mariposas (1994), by Julia Alvarez and Um mapa todo seu (2015), by Ana Maria Machado. La casa de los espíritus (1982), by Isabel Allende, acts as the epicenter of analysis, and divides mentioned books into four different categories, each representing the main social roles of women in society: women who own their destiny; mothers of the nation; women of artists and women of fight. The aim is to analyze each of the works as references of Western feminist thought. The central idea of this research is that these authors present the themes as rewritten in official history through feminine discourse. As for the theoretical research basis, the foundations of western feminist theory that influence the main theoretical currents of Anglo-American and French origin are presented. In conclusion, a piece of writing of Latin American feminism is developed, as a way to contribute to contemporary Latin American literary criticism, offering some elements of transgression for Latin American feminine literature.