Revista Araticum

1-18

Authors: Adriano Lima Drumond

According to Luciana Stegagno Picchio, José Guilherme Merquior was one of the most sympathetic critics to Murilo Mendes. Regardless of her startling statement, the Italian author did not justify it. All things considered, one of the both were a poet and the other were a critic and thinker. This paper aims to fill part of this void, characterizing and comparing Merquior’s thinking with Murilo Mendes’ poetry, in light of their critical fortune.

35-50

Authors: Ana Elisa Ribeiro

This article seeks to reveal aspects of publishing efforts of the Brazilian poet Henriqueta Lisboa. Our research sources was, mainly, the exchange of letters between she and her brother, José Carlos Lisboa, resident in Rio de Janeiro at that time (and other interlocutors of Henriqueta, between the 1960s -70). This research investigated letters that are in the custody of Acervo de Escritores Mineiros at Federal University of Minas Gerais. Based on this investigation, we can discuss aspects of Brazilian literature publication and circulation in the XXth century, especially in relation to women's writing.

61-70

Authors: Evaldo Balbino

Adélia Prado, in her book Bagagem, presents an intentional and insistent dialogue with some writers, mainly with male ones and belonging to Brazilian literature. Among these authors, we can highlight the romantic poet Castro Alves. The dialogue with a poet who conceived the female figure in a naive and sweet romantic molds, but who also represented most real and sexy women, is a form of the adeliano speech put up as a builder of a woman's voice who also has what to say. Thus, this study aims to verify how Adélia Prado, resuming the romantic poet with irony and eroticism, proposes a reflection about the forms of resistance and overcoming of women, through the poetic discourse and consequently through the female representation of women living in a patriarchal society.

86-97

Authors: Ivana Ferrante Rebello

This article analyzes the correspondence of the three writers - Cecilia Meireles, Henriqueta Lisboa and Lúcia Machado de Almeida, between forty to sixty, the twentieth century. This correspondence reveals the complicity of women writers in their roles as intellectuals and house wives. The letters show expressions of women's writing and allow reflection on the place of women in the national literary scene.