O protagonismo feminino em Anne de Green Gables

Abstract

The history of children's and youth literature demonstrates how it carried with it a pedagogical load that, for many years, was used as a manual of good conduct, whose main objective was the moralization of customs. This process was directly associated with the maintenance of patriarchal foundations and the consequent stereotyping of women in society. In this case, the representation of the female reflects a society that reproduces sexist patterns, in which the social role of each gender was historically programmed thus promoting the establishment of the female image under a condition of inferiority and submission while men occupied prestigious places. However, the protagonism of Anne Shirley character in the work Anne of Green Gables, promotes reflections on this cultural imposition, as her emancipatory discourse represents the feminine empowerment in scarcity in the period in which the work is inserted. In addition to questioning and building the image of the child in the face of a regime that disregards her as a thinking being the girl supports the identity construction of the girls of the small Anvolea, promoting an ideological training that raises questions related to the place of women in the culture that contemplates the existence of man and, in turn objectifies and imposes traditional customs that shape Anne Shirley's dreams, desires and personality. However, the imposition of the girl in the face of injustices and embarrassing situations reflects a character ahead of her time, and that, although we understand the trends in children's and youth literature after its publication period. For the development of the research, we base ourselves on the bibliographic method, and count on studies by Coelho (2000), Zilberman (1985), Beauvoir (1970), and others.