Revista Araticum

9-24

Authors: Constância Lima Duarte

Under the pretext of mentioning Brazilian women who published in the 30s, this text rescues a specific moment of our literature and questions the lack of woman writers in the national historiography. If the historical importance of this decade in women's lives is considered, it is understandable that both introspective dimension and the engagement are present in the fiction they produced. If they did not do a "literary revolution" they certainly practiced the "revolutionary literature" quoting João Luiz Lafetá. That is why the female writing has been questioned , criticized and deprived of qualities attributed to the writing of men since it appeared, in turn considered the tout court literature

36-46

Authors: Eunice Prudenciano de Souza e Rauer Ribeiro Rodrigues

We draw the particularities of the protagonists Luiz Vilela’s short-stories: "Nosso dia" and "Vazio", from Tremor de Terra (1967), "Catástrofe", from A cabeça (2002) and "Era aqui”, from Você Verá (2013). In "Nosso dia" narrative we have the patriarchal space in which the female character is submissive to her husband. In "Vazio" the mismatch between men and women is represented tragically. In "Catástrofe", the female voice prevails. In the short-story "Era aqui" there is message of hope in the possibility of coexistence between man and woman. Those stories in our view portray the feminine trajectory in occidental society in the twentieth century. To trace this way, we resort to historical and sociological studies from the perspective that show how feminism has brought high changes in social theories, in the human sciences and in the social organization, making social roles and crystallized concepts questioned. Luiz Vilela’s short-stories fictionalizes this multiple universe.

62-72

Authors: Marta Rodrigues

The work in question is the result of the unfolding of my doctoral thesis, which generated a broader research in the work of Lima Barreto. The search turns especially the aspects related to the role of the narrator, the historical and social disappointments of the characters, the transformations of space and social structures as a result of changes in historical order. Lima Barreto was one author of his time, and that time was of transformations. The city remodeling process of Rio de Janeiro, the so-called "Pull it Down," the mayor Pereira Passos, not only transformed the physical configuration of the city, but also represented a change in the lives of locals. This study is to analyze these aspects in the novel Memories Registrar Isaiah walks.